2022
When we move to or, even more powerfully, back to a place, our legal and cultural rituals have few connections to the subsequent marking and shaping we have on the place and it has on us. The beginning of being ‘of Wapato valley’ that this work recalls transformed my looking and marking.
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Expanded Field, Land, Water, Rooms
2019
This series of screens akin to personal icons were given with the prompt: work the wax as a practice of Lent. For some, this paralleled an ascetic denial of access to digital touch while, for others, it simply become a drawn manifestation of their prayers.
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Expanded Field
2019
An octagonal space constructed to view Context’s distorting and dissonant experience of time. The structure’s various facets mediate viewers’ experiences - forcing a rotunda of perspectives in place. This is a sister project to ‘A Living Room’.
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Expanded Field, Land, Water, Rooms
2018
An octagonal space constructed to eliminate context’s distorting and dissonant experience of time. The structure’s monolithic overhead camera obscura tunnel-visions visitors on the celestial passage of time in place. This is a sister project to ‘A Rec Room’.
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Expanded Field, Land, Rooms
2019
The Room itself is a recurring, temporary installation model which transforms a space into a room for dialogue and and inquiry though drawing. The host’s drawings provide a starting point for dialogue and invite visitors to become colleagues through their own drawings in dynamic conversation.
The subject of this Drawing Room is the investigation of the formation of a national identity through the mythicization of its founders.
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Works on Paper, Rooms, Theory
2015
Exploring the inheritance of history and the role of memorial
and remembrance, these works focus on the relationship of
human mark and a chronology where facts dance with myth.
The work specifically hones in on the inheritance and myth making of ‘bootstrap’ theory, public honor, influence, and legacy as core elements of American White male identity.
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Works on Paper, Expanded Field, History, Theory
2015
The Monument creates a physical effigy for the personal memory and public history of a life. When left with the remnants of unspecified dedication, questions of legacy and the life lived, especially of one with “excellent taste,” point back as much as they point forward.
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Works on Paper, History
2014
This work is made within a framework of abstract romanticism. Elemental notions of balance and tension explore the paradoxical nature of human knowledge’s limits – the Curtain. The work invites the viewer to wrestle with tension and contemplate unifying substructure.
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Works on Paper, Theory