LAB: Empirical Evidence is an immersive installation /exhibition produced at The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC (the University of Maryland Baltimore County). Two years in the making, this survey exhibition incorporates various aspects of my work, juxtaposing sculptural objects, photography, video, and sound as they relate to the natural world, blurring the lines between art and science, and bringing awarness to climate change.  The interrelated body of work, create a synergy beyond the individual elements.  A 64 page catalogue documenting the exhibition including essays by art critics Sarah Tanguy and Dominique Nahas has also been published.

Over the past several years I have been working with the metal casting process to create my sculpture. The sources for my work are drawn from the landscape and the processes that have formed it, the scale and power of industry, and the effect that environmental forces have on human ordering, ranging from remote ancient ruins to urban archeology.

I see the processes and elements used to shape metal in the foundry as a metaphor for the forces that have shaped and are shaping our environment.

What interests me most about a cast object is its fossil like nature: its ability to retain and convey information. The marks of the sand mold, the flashing and the cracks left from the molten metal shrinking and the natural patina of the metal all convey history.

My castings address the way creative forces in nature shape material; comparing time and material. Wood fragments blown from trees struck by lightning, boulders worn by glaciers and water, and hybrid oversized gourds have been used for patterns for the castings.

Each cast iron wedge weighs approximately 1,000 lbs.  The shape of each wedge is determined by the angle of the sides of the mold and the incline of the mold in the ground.

This project is on going..........

Metal castings of Boulders that have been effected by natural and human energy events.

In most cases the original boulder is displayed with the cast copy to bring into question what is real and what is not .....

Copper, Aluminum and iron castings made from shards of trees that have been hit by lightning.

These composite photographs are a result of various residencies that I have participated in.

I choose residencies  by their proximity to the landscape. 

The composite photographs are,  in a sense, constructed and are a direct response to the landscape. 

They are an investigation into the origins of the earth and where we are headed. 

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Exploration of form, material and light.
The chain-link fabric objects become catalysts in the site and perform as perceptual devices or monitors in the landscape, bringing attention to their surroundings.

The video installations bring together the various interests and media that I have been working with over the past several years. It is also heavily influenced by my observations of nature and my interest in the physical presence of material, the history of an object and the use of technology.

Metal castings of the molds of rocks.

This is an exploration of material and process as metaphor to celestiual bodies and events beyond our imediate experince and comprehention. 

The gourd has been an important staple and symbol through out the history of many cultures. Its full roundness, suggestive of a pregnant stomach, housing a great quantity of seeds for the next growing season, embodies the notion of fertility. As a food it will keep for long periods of time. When dried the shell of the gourd has a broad range of uses from storage and transport of food to cultivating the resonance of sound in musical instruments.

The Pumpkin has truly become an American phenomenon symbolizing the harvest and our agricultural industry. As a result fierce pumpkin growing competitions have evolved for the heaviest pumpkin.

The Gourds that I have been working with are products of agricultural engineering and are carefully attended to during their growing period. The pumpkins are freaks, oversized, burdened by their own weight to the point of collapse. Their size animates them giving them an anthropomorphic presence and amplifying their fertile qualities.

The Pumpkin Series is generated from a mold taken from an original 700lb pumpkin. The series is an ongoing, open-ended edition that started in 1995. Currently there are 18 aluminum and 2 iron pumpkins. In locations from the East to West coasts.

They have also been featured in a traveling exhibiton "Material Terrain."