about the work

The ritual of cutting/tearing/pasting/layering is rich and has keenly engaged me for over forty years. For me, it's always been the landscape using new and found papers, Braille documents, photographs, seismic records of earthquake events. The materials are infused with their own histories; I’m part of that history.

The Ice landscapes fuse ancient geology with implied ancient human presence, atmosphere drifting, crawling rock, water in it’s many forms. Things loom, come into sight indistinctly, at a distance or through a fog, appear above the horizon, or in an exaggerated form or size.

All push birth from the interior core outward to the surface.

The Small Houses developed from a desire to move into three dimensions, a need to physically wrangle with the art making process...and the timely acquisition of a collection of wooden boards. Small scale ancient architectural models in museums always drew my attention.

The interiors are collaged. The viewer is invited to become a voyeur, peer in the windows and doorways. Of all this work: This can be what ever you need it to be.