Public Art

Filaments

For Critical Massive MMX, a regional art festival, I created a sacred sound space among the trees. A space surrounded by cotton webbing and capped under a natural web with  chimes and spiders and spiraled cascades pouring out of the trees, Filaments features a portal pedestal in the center topped with a marble ripple. The space is to harmonize with nature and to study a more subtle and quiet interaction with our environment. The space was very well received.

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Fire Liken

Fill My Mouth With Butterflies

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Kinesics Series

Aphasia

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Collaborations

Crossroads – In Progress with the Iron Monkeys

For Burning Man 2010, we’re creating an 8′ high fire and water fountain flanked by 12′ steel columns that enclose a courtyard and sculpture gallery of invited artists. We’re leaving tomorrow!

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The Basement Art Studios

I’m currently working with a few other collaborators to turn an old basement in my apartment building in downtown Seattle into a resident art workspace with studios and community tables for painting and mixed media projects. It’s an exciting opportunity to bring affordable art space into Pioneer Square and create a community of artists.

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Aphasia

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8″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas. 2010

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The Spaces in Between

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20″ x 40″ acrylic on canvas and steel cable. 2010

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Paralimerents

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17″ x 38″ acrylic on canvas and steel cable. 2010. donated

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Apocope

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10″ x 20″ acrylic on wooden panel. 2010. Gifted.

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Echolalia

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31″ x 26″ acrylic on canvas and steel frame. 2010. Gifted.

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Anew

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Each of us has shells to break through,
parameters to look past,
and wills to exercise.
Arise and Stand.
And then start Moving.

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9 Life size sculptures. Created with a grant in 2009. Gifted.

More information on Anew

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Spheres of Influence

A reinterpretation of the arachne mythos as spiders as us as ripples as energy spheres. The skull represents our most base core, our specific window from the collective. Each arm is a boundary, a filter, a hand we use to reach into and influence each other; at once our identity and our isolation and our means of connecting.

The Spheres of Influence are approximately 2′ square, bronze and marble. Early 2009.

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The Rabbit

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“Do you know what madness is? … It’s self-indulgence.”
-David Mamet, Edmond

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The Rabbit is carved in soapstone. Portrait. Approximately 7″ square. 2009.

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I stand amid a sea of bodies huddled with their own knees. We cover the world, shining like men o’war feeding off the same sea, trapped each of us in translucent isolation, unaware of our ability to move in the sun. I am not alone, here walking over the broken remnants of my psychological ancestors; on the horizons our silhouettes are ginger-stalking, throwing more of ourselves into our paths with each step of self-recognition recoil. So off to my brethren walking in the distance. So off to the sun.

Anew are nine life size sculptures constructed of paper mache and plaster bandage. The set was first constructed as a temporary meditation on existential awakening for INW’s Critical Massive in July 2009 and then installed as a guerilla art piece in Seattle’s Gasworks Park at the end of August. Gifted to Seattle and taken home by various people, many of the pieces still stand in gardens and homes across the city.

Press
City Arts Blog
Seattle Times (2)
Bob Rivers Show, Radio
Seattle Sketcher, artist
Almost One a Day, photographer
Seattle PI

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Study painting for Anew. 2009.

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Fill My Mouth With Butterflies

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You pour down on me.
Loud, and my cheeks
fill up with air and fire.
My throat becomes butterflies
and all I know
and all I see and am
are structures
of their vibrations.

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30″ x 40″ Acrylic on canvas. 2010. Sold.

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Magellan

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“Whoopie ti-yi-yo
Settle down, Magellan
Put down that axe
There’s no time to despair
Whoopie ti-yi-yo
Keep trying, Magellan
You’ll find the East Indies
You just don’t know where”

-Animaniacs

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Magellan is 30″ x 40″ Acrylic on canvas. 2010

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The Shielded

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40″ x 30″ acrylic on canvas. 2010

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Sun Spot

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40″ x 30: acrylic on canvas. 2010

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Heaven Beside Me

“I want to roll in it, to create
cloud angels in my own image and lead them…
and lead them down
the stairways of mountaintops,
each one singing a different note
- and our orchestra with great
procession will draw in the sky,
weaving in new words my life’s history
and I will no longer lie
or make mistakes or self-destruct.
In this world where we float down
ridges a thousand feet deep
I will write myself as happy
and let sound my joy into the amphitheater of the heavens.”

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46″ x 36″. acrylic on canvas. November 2006. Sold.

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Defining Presence

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though it took some time for him
to sizzle into being,
the recognition on her part was rather sudden.

his hands cupped her heart in wonder
and in his eyes,
all the imagined life she could give him fell.

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24″ x 20″ acrylic on canvas. 2006. Donated.

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10000

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From you I come covered in butterflies,
who in their determined cacophony
of quivering wind and feathery slaps
envelop my calloused skin,
brittle with years of disbelief in human kindness.

Reproof to the nonexistence of love,
their tiny steps stir flowers from the sand
and paint it blush with disremembered sorrow.

Entranced in the roar of incandescent wings,
a choir full of voices pours from my mouth
in a frenzied rush of life breathing kisses.

I cherish the tickle, their velvety tongues,
singly in love with each and every one,
and you, as you are ten thousand.

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30″ x 18″ acrylic on canvas. Completed in late 2005. Sold.

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Incunabulum

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Incunabulum is the point of origin, the birthplace of the Universe. Here, it is cradled in a human hand – a symbol of our recognition of the universe as our consciousness expands past global awareness.

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This sculpture was created in Seattle, WA by the Iron Monkeys. I was a new member to the team and helped with brainstorming, forging, fabrication, and test installations. Then we lit it on fire.

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13′ x 6′ x 8′  Steel and pyrotechnics. Burning Man 2009

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The Crossroads

This year for Burning Man we are building a courtyard – a place to restore your spirit during your journey. The courtyard will center around a three-tiered 10′ stainless steel fountain of water and fire. The interior area features three separate sand fire pits, benches, and a sculpture gallery of contributing artists from across the country. Our perimeter is created by six scrolled columns, each one lighting its vicinity with fire. We will be hosting a gallery opening on Thursday during the festival in addition to other events.

They are difficult to photograph and work very well in lowly lit rooms as the silver paints capture and reflect enough light that the figures glow.

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Foundation

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16″ x 20″ acrylic on wooden panel. Self-portrait. 2010

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The Poet

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“We’re stuck here squirming trying to see what holds us.

Hoping that once we see it we may be free.

Hoping because we must.  That is our prison.

We’re only so much flesh.
Only so much meat to feed our time.

How far can we get?

Before we’re too weak to go on.

Strength stripped away in ribbons and pulp.

Pinned by whatever surrounds us when we stop.”

-The Poet

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60″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas with steel, twine, and clock weight frame. 2010

Meconnaissance

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“She has fastened the deadbolts and closed the blinds.
And he came back only this once, to turn off the noise.”

Meconnaissance. 24″ x 48″ acrylic on canvas. December 2009.

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With Slightly More Ribbons and Silver Bracelets

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They are bound together,
tied by ribbons of experience
and buckles of spoken words.
In quiet resignation
they stand,
senses closed to all
but the press of her back
against his chest.

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48″ x 36″ acrylic on canvas. Completed in 2008.

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Helicase

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Helicase is 36″ x 18″ acrylic on canvas. It has a steel frame not pictured. Feb 2007

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Three Quarter Turn: A Perception Study

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and he held her there,
under his arm,
a newspaper to be read later
at his convenience.

she laughed,
content in her game
and her ignorance.

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48″ x 36″ acrylic on canvas with steel frame binding. Early 2007.

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Balance

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30″ x 20″ acrylic on canvas. Summer 2008.

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Beneath the Tree of Life

and there under the roots she found the key, the golden orb grown from and creating the tree.
She held it, cradling it in her palm, as it trembled.

I release you

12″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas. Complete on commission in 2007. Sold.

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Bound

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With winds whipping
her tattered skirt
as she falls
and hands tied
behind her back,
she descends
with alarming rapidity.
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48″ x 36″ acrylic on canvas. Completed on commission in 2007. Sold.

A Little Truimph

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Step

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Lumberer

The Usher

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I took his hand, this character in psychedelic ringmaster garb who grinned from ear to ear, and we shocked each other with tiny electric sparks between our fingers  as we began to walk.

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18″ x 24″ acrylic and mirror on canvas with an angle iron and steel cable frame. The cables are adjustable height and the piece is meant to be hung from the ceiling, off the wall. 2007.

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The Corner of My Mouth

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36″ x 18″ acrylic and tv glass on canvas. portrait. Created in 2008.

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Peace

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Silently, he breaches the surface, closing his eyes into the first breath of fresh air in millennia.

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Peace is 36″ x 36″ acrylic and broken mirror on canvas contained in a frame of angle iron and steel cable. Completed in 2006.

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Thorns

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Thorns is 24″ square, acrylic and mirror on canvas. Completed in 2007. Sold.

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Woman UnRest

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Woman unRest is 11 x 14″ acrylic and black glass on canvas board. Created in 2005.

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Woman Objectified

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“You’ve got a pointed bra,
a ten inch waist,
long black stockings
all over the place.
Boots, buckles, belts outside.
What you got in there
you’re trying to hide?

What’s inside a girl?
Ain’t no hotter question
in the so called civilized world.”

- The Cramps

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48″ x 30″ acrylic on canvas. Completed in January 2005. Sold.

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Tattrous

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30″ x 20″ with steel frame. Acrylic on canvas.

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Crossroads

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here we all stand, still
staring off into the edge
of the universe

and in light we find
our paths into the unknown
fading in the dust
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Crossroads is 20″ x 30″ acrylic on canvas. Completed in 2008.

The Spheres of Influence are approximately 2′ square, bronze and marble. Completed 2009

The Spiders are currently being explored in my Filaments project for Critical Massive 2010.

The cascades, spheres, and carving are based on the idea behind the Spheres of Influence.

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The Entrance into Filaments featured a set of chimes in an undulating upward scale set beneath a web that trailed down into the glen.

The Pedestal featured a half-submerged spider set on black glass. The spider’s ripples are carved of white marble. At night, it appeared to be water.

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Hidden in the trees were spiders, spheres of copper wire, and cascades, their movements cut of copper sheet.

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Inside, also, was another set of chimes tuned to a cacophony.  The back wall was forged of more cotton webbing, creating only the barest feel of structure.

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One of the Cascade at the Art Farm Party in May 2010

The Spiders in my window downtown.

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Thank you to espressobuzz and Nick Jennings and sinisterbrain for use of their photos.

36′ x 42′ x 32′ wood and photographs. Installation Artists for Seattle Erotic Arts Festival 2010. Colleen and I were awarded second place in the audience choice