I Don't Know, You Don't Know, They Don't Know
With the abundance of mash-ups, fake news, and half-truths circulating, as a culture we can’t sort and evaluate the information we see fast enough to understand it. In response, I turned my research to archeological and archetypal symbols. History etched in stone is less mutable than its digital counterpart, though human behavior remains consistent. Throughout history we’ve seen the impervious systematic destruction of heritage by the power of ideological reasoning and self-serving political agendas. While the stories we have to guide us now are too tied to personal agenda to guide us, the ancestral truths and connective longevity foraged from our ancestors, tell tales of life, death, love, friendship, war, peace, sex and freedom. What is the legacy of contradicting ideologies in education and culture? How can we reconcile a dangerously forgetful history? Who knows what are the right questions to ask?
Hollow the Bone, 2021, wood, paint, stain, wax, metal, 47 x 11 x 10 inches
Short Attention Span, 2024, wood, stain, pigmented wax, metal 25 x 12 x 11 1/2 inches
We Did this to Ourselves, 2020,
wood, stain, pigmented wax
37 x 28 x 25 inches
Are We Taking the Same Risks, 2023, wood, stain, wax, metal, 34x13x16inches
Kneel, 2020,
wood, stain, pigmented wax
20 x 22 x 22 inches
There are Those that are More Equal Than Others, 2021, wood, stain, wax, 37 x 10 x 11 inches
For the First Time I Really Saw Beyond the Appearances, 2017-23, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 18x15x13inches
The Authority, 2021, wood, paint, stain, pigmented wax, metal, 19 x 18 x 17 inches
The Great Migration and Age of Exploration, 2019 wood, stain, paint, pigmented wax, 68 x 19 x 13 inches
My Sense of Humor is Complicated by My Personality, 2019, wood, paint, stain, lacquer, pigmented wax, found chair, 44 x 36 x 28inches
Are We a Nation of These? 2021, Dimension variable (16 x 30 x 63inches - shown) 100 unique fingers on plinths, wood, paint, stain, ink, wax, magnet
Evening Would Bring Its Familiar Strangeness, 2022, wood, stain, metal, wax, 10 1/2 x 30 x 13 inches
The Thing you are Looking for is the Thing you Weren't Looking For, 2021, wood, stain, wax, 31 x 11 x 12 inches
Please Wait Patiently, 2021, wood, paint, stain, wax, 34 x 15 x 12 inches
The Conscience of the Nation Must be Roused, 2020,
wood, stain, pigmented wax
25 x 7 x 19 inches
Looted Objects are too Valuable that is Why We Can't Return Them, 2021, wood, paint, stain, wax, 19 x 7 1/2 x 9 inches
Does Not Begin and End the Way We See, 2020,
wood, stain, pigmented wax
32 x 22 x 25 inches
I Don't Know How to be Everything to Everyone, 2020, wood, stain, pigmented wax, 18 1/2 x 11 x 9 inches
How Can I Blame You When it's Me I can't Forgive, 2021, wood, stain, wax, 25 x 8 x 7 inches
What We Are Proposing, 2020,
wood, stain, pigmented wax, dyed rope, found metal chair, vinyl
52 x 20 x 20 inches
It Must be Obvious There is Contradiction, 2021, wood, paint, stain, wax, 28 x 12 x 10 inches
Suggestibility is a Tendency to Believe, 2019, wood, paint, pigmented wax, metal, 33 x 22 x 10inches
Like the Best Kept Secret That's Not Even a Secret, 2019, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 31 x 13 x13 inches
Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence, 2019, wood, paint, pigmented wax, metal, 42 x 26 x14inches
Misinterpreted Memories About Oneself, 2019, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 42 x 12 x 12 inches
The Fictional Analogy of Death, Love, Friendship, War, Peace and Sex, 2019, wood, paint, stain, lacquer, pigmented wax, metal, found chair, 39 x 19 x 78inches
More Than Intelligence is Wisdom, 2020, wood, stain, wax, 16 x 19 x 10 inches
All the Pleasures of Beauty and Beneficience, 2019, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 33 x 18 x 17inches
Without Beauty, Love or Danger it Would Almost be Easy to Live, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 16 x 11 x 16 inches
A Reasonable Alternative Solution to Admire Our Problems, 2019, wood, paint, pigmented wax, metal, 57 x 17 x 10inches
The Problem and the Solution, 2020,
wood, stain, paint, pigmented wax, magnet
13 3/4 x 4 x 4 inches
We'll all be Ghosts to Someone at Some Point, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 35 x 11 x 11inches
Weight of Evidence was Overwhelming, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 20 x12 x 10inches
Culprit, 2019, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 29 x 14 x 10inches
The Beauty of Death is Presence, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 23 x 10 x 13inches
Untilted, 2022, Gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper, 52 x84inches
The Circumstances, 2022, Gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper, 52x 42inches
Untilted, 2022, Gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper, 52x42inches
Where Does I and We Begin, 2022, Gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper, 52x42inches
Untilted, 2022, Gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper, 52x42inches
Untilted, 2022, Gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper, 52 x42inches
Untilted, 2022, Gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper, 52 x42inches
Unknown, 2022, Gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper, 14x11inches each