Sculpture and sculptural commissions in the Hudson Valley, Berkshires and beyond. Working primarily in GFRC concrete, steel, cast glass and often incorporating LED lighting, these human scale works explore themes of spirituality, beauty, nature and humanity. Torusd.com home of Torus Design.

Torusd.com, the home of Torus Design. Hudson Valley based, bespoke and unique outdoor and indoor sculptural creations. Designing, building, transporting and installing sculptural commissions for private clients. Building sculptures using a variety of mediums.

Working primarily in GFRC concrete, steel, cast glass, often incorporating LED lighting and fiber optics into sculptures. Works are sometimes interactive, and always relate to the human scale. As observers and appreciators of art, we neccisarily interact with it, are moved, touched by our relationship to a piece of art. For too long sculpture has been reduced to an object, a thing, a possession. The founders and artists of Torus Design, Sonja Worhad and Jason Howard seek to restore sublime beauty to art. Awe, an intuited and felt sense of the spiritual and earthly. Evocation.

Inspired by our own quest for spiritual reality, enlightenment and truth, Torus Design seeks to embody and evoke that same experience of beauty, awe and mystery in our creations. Some of the traditions which have informed our experience; Zen, Zen-Bhuddism, Tantra, Tibetan-Bhuddism, Yoga, Hinduism, Gnosticism, the Christian mystics, all pointing to that which cannot be pointed at but only experienced. Art, creativity are for us an expression of the divine.

The medium of concrete, in our built environment is ubiquotous, standard and base. Hiding under its monotone grey surface, are pearls of color, stones, granites, agates waiting to shine when polished. The mundane, hiding the sublime. A diamond in the rough, the lotus growing from mud. Light shines into darkness, is obscured, bounced, refracted and reflected. Steel, is tempered, pounded, worked and welded a human invention, and mirror of humanity.