Lavin is shaping future from the shadows
Hit by recent flooding, sculptor working out of marina needs new space
The Cypress Creek Marina is what you’d expect — boats, boat parts and aquatic construction. But even with engines, ropes and miscellaneous parts, its warehouse in Severna Park feels like the Vatican.
Eddie Lavin, 42, has been creating sculptures for the last two years out of a truck container at the marina. He’s been too shy to show his work, but recent heavy rains caused the container to rupture and he had to move the sculptures to the warehouse where they were housed Thursday.
“That scared me to death. I’m uninsured.
I have no protection. This represents two years of my life,” he said.
His work needs to be cleared out of the warehouse by Monday, and he has no idea where it will go. Until then, it sits among boat parts.
Paul Spadaro, president of the Magothy River Association, looks at the Italian marble, basalt and granite Lavin has been chiseling and sawing away at for years.
“When you see the rock outside and see what he created with a chisel and hammer … He’s the real deal,” Spadaro said.
Spadaro had originally set Lavin up with the truck container to act as his studio. And Spadaro got Lavin’s work into the boat shop temporarily until Lavin can find a new home for it. Lavin is still working to get the water stains out of his work from the flood. The largest of Lavin’s four pieces is a 5-foot sculpture of St. Michael the Archangel.
His angular face and flowing hair are flawlessly carved from Italian marble, sitting atop a spinning granite column that has the deep curves of the caduceus — a Greek symbol most associate now with medicine — carved through it.
The back of St. Michael’s head holds a small maple and ebony harp crafted into the shape of two seahorses that you can remove and play. The seahorses are curved into the shape of the brain’s hippocampus, the part of the brain that controls memory.
The word translates to seahorse in Greek, and is also part of Lavin’s second piece.
In a flat slab of marble behind Michael’s See SCULPTOR, page 5
Eddie Lavin, 42, has been creating sculptures for the last two years out of a truck container at the marina. He’s been too shy to show his work, but recent heavy rains caused the container to rupture and he had to move the sculptures to the warehouse where they were housed Thursday.
“That scared me to death. I’m uninsured.
I have no protection. This represents two years of my life,” he said.
His work needs to be cleared out of the warehouse by Monday, and he has no idea where it will go. Until then, it sits among boat parts.
Paul Spadaro, president of the Magothy River Association, looks at the Italian marble, basalt and granite Lavin has been chiseling and sawing away at for years.
“When you see the rock outside and see what he created with a chisel and hammer … He’s the real deal,” Spadaro said.
Spadaro had originally set Lavin up with the truck container to act as his studio. And Spadaro got Lavin’s work into the boat shop temporarily until Lavin can find a new home for it. Lavin is still working to get the water stains out of his work from the flood. The largest of Lavin’s four pieces is a 5-foot sculpture of St. Michael the Archangel.
His angular face and flowing hair are flawlessly carved from Italian marble, sitting atop a spinning granite column that has the deep curves of the caduceus — a Greek symbol most associate now with medicine — carved through it.
The back of St. Michael’s head holds a small maple and ebony harp crafted into the shape of two seahorses that you can remove and play. The seahorses are curved into the shape of the brain’s hippocampus, the part of the brain that controls memory.
The word translates to seahorse in Greek, and is also part of Lavin’s second piece.
In a flat slab of marble behind Michael’s See SCULPTOR, page 5
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