A suite of some 50 working drawings accompany the sculpture and document its construction. While Logan was working on the sculpture his father died. I guess there was a subliminal connection between these events. His sculpture blends an array of building techniques, borrowed from many cultures. Viewers may recognize the traditional lines of the Mayflower combined with elements of Roman galleys or Polynesian outrigger canoes' steering systems.
Upraised arms hold the spar carrying the sail.
A painstaking craftsman, Logan, who holds a MFA in sculpture from Southern Illinois University, has mastered the complexities of steaming wood to bend planks and even resorted to building a small machine to make his own rope for rigging. Last year a visiting artist at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Logan exhibits regularly, most recently at the Gallery on 2nd in New York City. For almost a decade, the artist, whose BFA is in illustration from the Parsons School of Design, worked as an editorial illustrator and production supervisor for LIFE magazine. Praised for his skill in tying super-realistic fishing flies, Logan is internationally noted for this talent and an example of his work is in the permanent collection, Norsk Skogbruksmuseum, Norway.