Shagadelic Chandeliers

Inspired by my first bicycle wheel pieces (which are designed to rest against or be hung in a window), these chandeliers were the next logical step to expand upon the idea and allowed me to be able to offer an option for constant and controllable illumination at any time of day or night, as well as a higher priced item to generate more income. While the original wheels are works of art that are best viewed in direct sunlight, these are fully dimmable and functioning lamps, designed to either be hung from the ceiling , or as free-standing /corner accent pieces.

Langer Over Dickie

Installation for LangerOverDickie, Chicago IL, 2019

The gallery was in a typical Chicago neighborhood home. The objects interacted with the setting going in and out of the walls of the living room area as well as in the bedroom. 

Sock Packer series/ Laundry Day Dubuffet

Socks, especially the two red stripe athletic sock, are a common image I have used in my

sculptures since 2020. They signify the presense of a body as well as performed masculinity/

gender presentation. They are also just funny little objects with a cheeky shape to them that

resemble other things. The Laundry Day Dubuffet series started as sketches for the direct cast

plaster sculptures. When casting each sock one out of every three would break and instead of

Locker Room

For the 2020 installation Locker Room for Basketshop Gallery in Cincinnati, OH a shower has been deconstructed and cluttered with objects. Tile walls, copper pipes and bathroom plumbing implements are transformed from their original function to stand in for skin, organs, limbs or strange, exposed genitals, emphasizing vulnerability, tension, and the fluidity of identity.

Docu-mentation

A multimedia installation + performance  Inspired by metaphysical notions surrounding the role of the observer in knowingness, similar philosophical conceptions in phenomenology, media theorist Walter Benjamin’s insights into the “aura” of an art-object, Allan Kaprow's wisdom surrounding "happenings" in the art of everyday life, the long-form performative works of Tehching Hsieh and Olafur Eliasson's perception-questioning installations; this piece documents the mentation process of the spectator.

Herding the Gaze Away from the Pasture

In the real-world, Grimes allows the spectator to examine their own perceptions of reality in an art gallery containing rendered versions of natural resources, static TVs and reflective surfaces. Once within the VR space, these same objects are repeated in the context of a virtual art gallery. The spectator eventually meets a mediated view of their real self through Grimes’ utilization of a live video-feed mechanism. Now-a-days, people are accustomed to finding their sources of reality, culture, information and purpose via pieces of technology.

Spiritual Devices from the 3rd Millennium

I create objects from the confluence of materials left on the shores by the floodwaters.

When I walk the urban wilds of stream water run-off forests, I feel set free from the organization of the chronological timeline we have in our heads. I become one with the cycles of the seasons, the immense power of floodwaters, the tracks a heron leaves. The past, present, and future merge into one.

Since most of my urban wilds are only traveled by animals, I can imagine the beauty and grandeur of Mid-Atlantic North America before colonists arrived.

Telmiesk Portal {COLLAPSED}

We cross the threshold.
Once inside I feel the weight of infinity closing behind me. The choices that could have been made receed into a finite time. At once closure. I am unsure of my focus and frame of reference. In a panic I search into a setting I cannot recognize nor relate to. The fear of pure unknown consumes me as my judgement is rendered useless. 

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