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This work is essentially a giant 12 tipped syringe that is kinetic.   A hydraulic looking device is pulling a lever at on end of the device as if it is going to inject all twelve tips into the body.  The device appears to be frustrated in its attempt to complete its function as the hydraulic arm never completes its cycle.

“Bottle Neck”

Steel, Brass, Acrylic, and Electronics

48″ x 60″x 144″

This piece has 80 syringes attached to the belly of the machine.  Each syringe is printed with its own unique label that describes different aspects of a relationship that is vital for its existence yet is quite often not talked about or given credit.

“80 LBS.”

Steel, Brass, Found Objects, and Electronics

68″ x 42″ x 18″

This work is based on a love / hate relationship with a morphine drip.  Being connected to a device that dispenses pleasure yet to receive the pleasure you have to be connected to the machine.

“Drip”

Steel, Brass, Found Objects, Acrylic, and Electronics

12″ x 14″ x 36″

This work is almost a historical document of when my wife was connected to the machine.

“Shackle”

Steel, Brass, and Copper

60″ x 18″ x 48″

This work is also a figurative documentation of a moment in time where the machine became a partner in the relationship I had with my wife.   This piece is also kinetic at a small glass syringe strokes in and out at 13 strokes per minute.

“Passenger Seat”

Steel, Brass, Copper, Found Objects and Electronics

52″ x 86″ x 60″

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top left: “Build Up” 24″ x 60″ x 60″
approx. 63,000 individually stacked squares of toilet tissue. 2005.

middle top: “Build Up” installation in progress

middle left: “Build Up” detail.

top right: Drawing from the “Rendering Indifference” Series.
20″x 26″. ink on paper. 2005. Drawing completed when pen ran out of ink.

bottom: Video still. Swarm. 2005. 00:26:31
Filmed in real time-recording the two large shadows moving across the screen at the rate of the suns movement; while also capturing movement and sounds in the periphery. This piece is designed to place the viewer in a sort of trance, moving so slowly and quietly it requires the viewer to watch everything at once in order to see anything.

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Deccember 1971, 2006, Archival Ink Jet Print, 36″ X 36″

Bedroom, 2006, Archival Ink Jet Print, 36″ X 36″

Mattress, 2006, Archival Ink Jet Print, 36″ X 36″

Backyard, 2006, Archival Ink Jet Print, 36″ X 36″

Livingroom, 2006, Archival Ink Jet Print, 36″ X 36″
“Thirty-Five Years” This new body of work examines a return to the integrity of the photograph as a device to document life. The conceptual impetus for this work is the photograph itself, the photographs are actual snapshots of home from the 1970’s, combined with current re-interpretations of home and domesticity in fabric photographs. These works originate from the first days of picking up a Kodak instamatic. I am interested in the act of re-animating the early photographs, bringing attention to the dichotomy, and how specifically the past has and still remains to inform my work.