Work > Bird-Like Things and Things Like Trees

With Bird–Like Things in Things Like Trees, my interest lies in fabricating
immediate yet elusive objects. These slippery icons originated from attempts to construct unfamiliar birds and beings based on interpreted, interrupted, or fleeting encounters while in a seemingly familiar yet foreign place. That intent was entangled, energized, and distracted by the excitement and expectation of significant change.

The work embraces the ideas of suspension, fecundity, and recollection through material, conceptual, and stylistic concerns. Imagery hovers between the representational and abstract while resting in the uncanny. The origin of each piece hides in plain sight, pausing briefly along the evolution and migration of actual facts through romanticized recollection. The paintings and drawings employ an ambiguous ground through the removal of spatial context and by layering transparent, reflective, and repeated elements from early ink studies. Smoke, inks, mediums and pigments involving the suspension of particles seem to hover above the paper surface and translucent polyester grounds stretched on sculptural formats.

Deliberately conditional, the work is dependent on projected and reflected light. On panel pieces, direct light illuminates sides or splits creating a bounce of pinkish orange light. With the polyester canvases, light initially passes through the ink and reflects off the under layer of mirrored mylar, creating patterns and echoes of the ink image on the polyester surface. As the viewer passes, layers compress or pull apart or hover while the reflected light image appears or disappears. The translucent mirrored glass horns accept and reflect the surrounding environment while projecting sound and images through concealed speakers and pico projectors embedded within.

Milk
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, wood
61" x 47" x 3"
Miss Couvade Syndrome 2010
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, wood
61" x 48" x 4"
Pop
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, wood
72" x 48" x 3''
Cuckoo (Begging Call)
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, mdf
63” x 45” X 3”
It's A Girl 4 (winter coat)
polyester, mylar, reflected light, mdf
30” x 22” X 2”
Pink & Blue 4 - 1
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, mdf
30” x 22” X 2”
2012
Cuckoo
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, mdf
30” x 22” X 2”
Plumb 1
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, mdf
30” x 22” X 2”
Pink & Blue 4 - 2
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, mdf
30” x 22” X 2”
It's A Girl 2
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, mdf
30” x 22” X 2”
Plumb 2
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, mdf
30” x 22” X 2”
It's A Girl 3
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, wood
30" x 22" x 2.5"
It's A Girl 1
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, wood
30" x 22" x 2.5"
Blubber
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, mdf
48” x 34” X 3”
Warbler
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, wood
44" diameter x 3'' deep
Rooster
ink on polyester, mylar, reflected light, mdf
60” x 40” X 3”
Volée et Brûlée N&L 15
sold
smoke, ink, paint, paper mounted on mdf
8” x 6”
Volée et Brûlée 3
smoke, ink, paint, paper mounted on mdf
15” x 12”
Volée et Brûlée 1
smoke, ink, paint, paper mounted on mdf
15” x 12”
Volée et Brûlée 2
smoke, ink, paint, paper mounted on mdf
16” x 12”
Volée et Brûlée 4
smoke, ink, paint, paper mounted on mdf
16” x 12”
Volée et Brûlée 5

sold
smoke, ink, paint, paper mounted on mdf
11” x 16”
Volée et Brûlée Couvade 5
smoke, ink, paint, paper mounted on mdf
8” x 12”