Joe Port – Wood Sculpture of The Legendary Dwarf

This wood sculpture of Joe Port is carved from a piece of Mahogany. This is a fantasy version I imagined of a real-life homeless person who some folks told me of who used to hang out at their local airport near Spencer, Mass. They referred to him as Joe, or “old Joe”. For my sculpture, I gave him the last name of Port and fancied a story surrounding the image of him that had I conjured up.
The story was that of a man who got lost in the fame of his brother “Air” after their cooperative effort to devise the equivalent of a bus station for airplanes. My imagining stemmed from the lonely song written and sung by the late Gordon Lightfoot “In The Early Morning Rain” which always provided me with a profoundly intense emotional comfort at many of the crossroads in my life. My Joe was one whose time and fame had passed by and now spent his days – and nights –  at the runway watching the planes come and go.

Measures 12″h x 5″w x 4″d,