This project has involved fighting against the demolition of the Book Bindery building On Elm St., Hampden, Baltimore with it's iconic chimney, serving as a nightly resting place for thousands of Chimney swifts during their spring and summer migration to South America. My  protest tool in this fight is a coffin from the banks of Stony Run.
Please listen to Aaron Henkin's The Curiosity Bureau episode on the Stoney Run Coffin.
https://www.wypr.org/2022-11-14/whats-with-the-abandoned-coffin-of-mathilda-lorenz

The watercolors presented in this project are all recent ( 2019-2022) with some inspired by my interest in mutation.  My recent work,  as a response to the  Covid 19 pandemic, has produced a series of works inspired by nature but often featuring strange twists or mutations. Some of these drawings and paintings were started after I had a medical procedure to insert a small tube in my body where a large aneurysm had developed.

 
This project shows some of my work in helping create and preserve pollinator habitats and specifically work  sustaining the  native solitary bee population. The current decline of insects and pollinators in particular is very disturbing. With reduced pollination comes reduced food production and we are currently on a downward spiral where pollinators are concerned.

This project shows work  from the 2017 exhibition Birdland and the Anthropocene,  a show curated by avid bird lover and artist Lynn Parkes that exhibited at the Peale Center in downtown Baltimore. The show highlighted the negative influence that man has inflicted on the bird population of planet Earth. As part of the group exhibition, I installed 5 replica nests of  endangered MD groundnesting birds in the garden of the Peale Center.
https://www.thepealecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/finalbirdland.pdf

These photographs document 4 projects installed on the beach near Reykjavik airport, Reykjavik, Iceland, all involving the stone basalt. My fascination with Basalt goes back to my Studies and work in geology. Basalt for me represents the movement and creation of possible land masses through plate tectonics, an important part of Earth's geological history. Interestingly Reykjavic has imported yellow sand from the US to replace the black basalt sand native to Iceland, for use on one of it's recreational beeches.
2009 Basaltic Hexagon project; Basalt stones were collected and placed in a hexagonal pattern, each hexagon approx. 3ft in width. The pattern reflects the nature of basalt when emerging from the earth, it often forms large hexagonal layers. The installation was started at low tide, I then worked until high tide started to lap on to the completed hexagons.
2010 Basalt high tide markers; In this project I guessed at the position of high tide on the shoreline. Then basalt was collected and placed to mark high tide. The next day when I visited the installation and found that I had marked the high tide mark accurately; below the basalt stones on the ocean side the beach was frozen, above the stones on the landward side the basalt remained unfrozen.
2012 Basalt circle; Basalt was collected and placed in a 12ft diameter circle with a hexagonal shape in the middle, this was installed at low tide. At high tide the circle was slowly flooded out and destroyed.
2014 The worship of Basalt I and II;  Location directly at the end of runway for Reykjavik airport. A large basalt boulder (approx. 3ft long) lying secluded from the surrounding rocks was selected for the installation. Small basalt stones with kelp attached were selected then dragged across the sand and placed with the stones facing the boulder. The action of dragging the stones across the sand (which had a light dusting of snow on it) left interesting lines on the beach. The installation was performed 2 times on consecutive days (high tide washing away the stones overnight); in part 1 a hexagon was formed around the boulder, in part 2 the shape was an outline of the boulder.
The  remaining pictures are a selection on projects installed in the UK.

Installed on Blakeney Point, Norfolk, England, December 28th-31st 2007.
 Exhibited as part of Artscape 2017 fieldwork group show.
Circle diameter 20ft, height of cairn 3ft
  Blakeney Point Flint Project #5 was the culmination of 4 previous installations (or sketches) in exactly the same location on the western side of a large sand dune just above normal high tide. Flint was collected from the surrounding area and sorted into 6 colors; white, blue, light blue, black, tan, red. The position of the cairn and henge were marked, sand was excavated from the henge to form the mound for the cairn. The different colored flints were then placed to form the outer circle (white), henge (blue) and cairn (light blue, black, tan and red). Washed up vegetation (jetsam and flotsam) were placed in the henge.
Dry driftwood was collected and used to build a fire on the top of the cairn. The installation was a homage to the Neolithic stone circles found throughout the British Iles.

These works are part of the Art on the Trail series of installations  at Lake Roland Park, Baltimore and  Nature Art in the Park work  in Leakin Park, Baltimore (2014 to Present). They include my Pollinator Hexagon series of installations. In addition to other work installed in the US.
https://chesapeakebaymagazine.com/art-on-the-waterfront-brings-inspired-outdoor-art-to-south-baltimore/

The HEMS project involved designing and installing an outdoor classroom and educational playspace featuring a native pollinator and wildlife garden, installed by my company International Landscaping and Design.
The Druid Heights Nature Playspace project involved transforming 2 empty lots on McCulloh St in the Druid Heights area into a community nature playspace with an emphasis on sustainability and native pollinator plants. The design was drawn up by myself with help and advice from The Druid Heights Development Corporation, National Wildlife Federation, The Univesity of MD Medical Center and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The installation was completed by my company International Landscaping and Design over a period of approximately 8 months in 2019.
https://blog.nwf.org/2019/08/bringing-nature-play-to-west-baltimore/?_ga=2.243302278.2098123358.1576712363-1506711329.1576529155

Assemblages: Wood, stone, oil paint, sand, photographs, natural and manmade objects.