Regimen

Title: Regimen

Size: Dimensions variable (this installation was 65' X 18' X 2")

Date: 12-2010

Materials: Plastic, steel pins, and acrylic paint.

It is the representation of the pills I took the month of my back surgery, December 2009. 31 days with four columns each, morning noon night and bedtime, are represented. It will be 62 feet long and have 579 pills. I have made plastic pill bugs, painted the exact color of the pills I took, that sit on 579 plastic tongues that protrude from the wall.

Rupture (new images)

Title: Rupture

Size: 6’7” X 1’6” X1’6”

Date: 11-2010

Materials: Steel, plastic, foam, rubber, and

an ipod touch.

Description:

When the Doctor came out to update my Mother and Wife about my surgery He said, "When I cut into his spinal column, a piece of his disc the size of a gum-ball popped out. I thought his words were a telling metaphor for a ruptured disc. So I placed foam discs between each plastic vertebra, compressed. Between two of them, at the position of my surgery, a looped video of a bubble being blown till popped plays.

Exhausted

Lyin'

Regimen

Title: Regimen (working)

Size: Dimensions variable

Date: 12-2010

Materials: Plastic and acrylic paint.

Description:

This is a small part of a larger piece. It is the representation of two days of the pills I took the month of my back surgery. As the installation builds, my daily regimen of pills seems to line up like an regimen of soldiers. The final version will have all 31 days represented. It will be 62 feet long and have 676 pills. I have made plastic pill bugs, painted the exact color of the pills I took, that sit on 676 plastic tongues that protrude from the wall.

Rupture

Title: Rupture

Size: 6’7” X 1’6” X1’6”

Date: 11-2010

Materials: Steel, plastic, nerf, rubber, and

an ipod touch.

Description:

When the Doctor came out to update my Mother and Wife about my surgery He said, "When I cut into his spinal column, a piece of his disc the size of a gum-ball popped out. I thought his words were a telling metaphor for a ruptured disc. So I placed foam discs between each plastic vertebra, compressed. Between two of them, at the position of my surgery, a looped video of a bubble being blown till popped plays.

Alert (Liar)

Title: Alert (Liar)

Size: 5’9” X 248 lbs.

Date: Ongoing

Materials: Artist and bracelet.

Description:

This is the photographic "proof" of an ongoing piece that I have been working on. I had this made when things happened in my personal life to make me question if I was even true to myself.

Backboard

Title: Backboard

Size: 6’ X 1’6” X1’2”

Date: 10-2010

Materials: Plastic, steel, and acrylic resin.

Description:

This started as a simple play on the word backboard but, after having to be picked-up off the floor and taken to the ER by a former soldier, I understand how helpless you feel when your on one of these. For about five weeks I was laid-up. I didn't have the ability to stand, let alone make a lay-up, so I made changes rendering the rim and net as useless as I felt.

Plug

Title: Plug

Size: 14” X 43” X 12”

Date: 05-2010

Materials: Bowling ball, bag, cord, and outlet.

Description:

No, it doesn’t “do” anything.

Mr. Potato Famine

Title: Mr. Potato Famine

Size: 1” X 1” X 3 ½ ”

Date: 5/09

Materials: Aluminum.

Description:

Empty hands outstretched. A memorial in aluminum.

Karat

Title: Karat

Size: 44” X 18” X 7”

Date: 11/09

Materials: Steel, aluminum, plastic, and rubber.

Description:

Balanced just out of reach, a carrot shaped pill bottle dangles.

Still. Moving.

Title: Still. Moving.

Size: 18” X 31” X 11”

Date: 12/09

Materials: Aluminum, rubber, and plastic.

Description:

I have removed the utility of this device, solely created for assisting mobility, with the addition of immovable cast plastic casters. The gesture of the cane, exaggerated by the wheels, implies the possibility of movement where there is none.

Popped Art

Title: Popped Art
Size: Dimensions variable
Date: 8/2009
Media: Construction
Materials: Aluminum and plastic.

Description:

Popped Art is eight POP-Tarts in Pop Art style. The multiple cast aluminum Pop-Tarts with plastic icing burst from the wall on plastic mounts and machined aluminum rods.

Roll

Title: Roll
Size: 39” X 74” X 14”
Date: 08/2009
Materials: Bronze, steel, and bread.

Description:
Roll deals with the connection between mental and physical health and the dependency on drugs through the language of fabricated, human scale, medical apparati. The addition of bread as a medium brings with it a suggestion of impermanence and decay contrasted with the enduring steel, bronze, and rubber.

See below for details.

Roll

Here are some in-progress photographs of my current sculpture with the working title "Roll." It is a kind of Self-portrait in steel, bronze, and bread. More on it soon.

Core Sample

Title: Core Sample
Size: 28” X 58” X 10”
Date: 05/2009
Materials: Core, Mantle, Crust, and Lava.

Description:
Pun signifiers sit in for this diagrammatical look at the layers of the Earth.
A Bronze apple core stands in for the molten metal center of our Earth while the mantle mantle allows the ceramic crust, made of material from the shell we live on, to ride above it as red lava spews upward through it.

Kernel and Cleanse

Title: Kernel
Size: 28” X 5 ½” X 3”
Date: 04/09
Media: Sculpture
Materials: Wood, soap, ceramic, and, stainless steel soap dishes.

Description:
The Kernel of Truth remains, enduring in the residue of every old lie.

Following events involving deception from family members I started trying to decide how I would sculpt a lie. Deciding what physical form deceit would take was not an easy task. Through brainstorming I came to the play on words lye/lie soap. It seamed to be the perfect marriage of pun and concept. Creating the lie from, you guessed it, soap was the obvious first choice and after wading through twelve different materials it was clearly the right option. Many other materials brought with them interesting textures and connotations but none came close to matching the weak, easily dissolved, translucency of actual soap. I chose ceramic for the titular Kernel of truth within the lie. I found no better material to articulate the permanent, hard truth. As the lie wears away, becoming more and more transparent, this would always be left behind, enduring. As for the final form the artwork takes, I again went through many possibilities. Most of them became very bulky very quickly. The very simple concept became overwhelmed easily by too much unnecessary information. To find the most elegant solution editing became paramount. In Kernel, instead of incorporating every step, I chose to include only the beginning and end of the story as objects. On the left a new lie sits on a pristine dish with only a hint of what’s inside visible. To the right the dish carries only the kernel sitting unflinchingly on the residue of the used up lie.

Title: Cleanse
Size: Dimensions Variable, 3 min. loop
Date: 04/09
Media: Video
Materials: Hands, soap, water, and sink.

Description:
Endless is the attempt to stay clean after a fraudulent act. In Cleanse, a looped video seemed the ideal medium to demonstrate this effort. Projected ethereally nearby Kernel, a pair of hands works compulsively to try to sanitize themselves. This video informs the objects in Kernel as a sort of middle step.

In their adjacent installation the two work in concert to convey a unified thought.

POP Tart

Title: POP Tart
Size: 5” X 8” X 22”
Date: 3/2009
Media: Construction
Materials: Aluminum, steel, and plastic.

Description:
POP Tart is very easy to explain. It is a POP-Tart in the style of a Pop Art piece. It is comprised of a steel mount, a purchased aluminum rod, and a cast aluminum Pop-Tart with plastic icing. This piece is being used as a pattern to create a larger wall piece “Popped Art” that you will see on here soon.

Pissing Contest

Title: Pissing Contest
Size: 8’ X 3’ X 4’ 6”
Date: 12-2008
Media: Assemblage
Materials: Wood, wire, lamps, galvanized pipe, game board, bedpans.

Description:

This piece was inspired by an argument with a family member. This confrontation lasted hours with neither side giving in, both with righteousness on their side. I have always thought the colloquialism of the “pissing contest” was a hilarious visualization. Here I use humor to deal with the harsh realities of a personal experience. I invite anyone to step up into the role of the competitor but be ready to have you side of the story in the spot light.