Exhibition Statement

This installation represents the core myths and stories that are passed orally through generations across cultures and continents. These stories exist in our collective memory. Many of them have been subsumed by religions or subjugated by our romance with science. As these myths and stories disappear, what will replace them?

Echoes

Mixed media on rice paper, 18" x 50'. detail

Installation

In this work I deliberately push the edge of two-dimensions by using the thinnest of surfaces, Chinese rice paper and fine silk fabric, separating them from the wall and freeing them from the limits of the frame. These materials embody both the vulnerability of myth and its enduring nature. I suspend the scrolls in air, so the images swirl and dance in time and space, or I intertwine them with natural materials to connect them with the beginnings of language.

Memory String

Mixed media on rice paper, detail

A Long Story

Mixed media on rice paper, detail

Long Story

Mixed media on rice paper, 18" x 50', detail

Memory String

Mixed Media on rice paper, detail

Installation

Detail

Lair

Mixed media, rice paper, wood, H 48 x L 42 x W 24

Installation

Written story and drawings, detail

Palimpsest

Mixed media on rice paper, 18" x 30', detail

Memory String

Mixed media on rice paper, 15" x 60'

Memory String

Detail

There was a man who dreamed

Artist Book (cover detail), 10 x 14

Perforrmance

Pefformance

"There was a man who dreamed he was a butterfly. He flew so high when he awoke, he didn't know if he was a man who dreamed he was a butterfly or a butterfly who dreamed he was a man."