Water Wars Project: Physical forms as a dialogue. We can't live without fresh water.

The 3 human-sized cairn or egg forms "Synergy", "Water Wars #2", and "The Golden Egg"
are the most recent works in this series. They are made to stand alone, but I see them as some kind of trinity. I see them like the three blind mice and the three monkeys who see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil, and the three wise men all wrapped up into one.

I've also included a few pieces from 20 years ago where I first wrestled with water and our connections to it.
  • Society #4 in the woods
    Society #4 in the woods
    water, wood, rope,& rubber, 7' x 7' x 7' & the forest This version of "Society" was set in a forest glen where it lived for a couple of years. After many hard rains and ice and probably some uv deterioration on the used rubber liner (the liner had been used to line a solar storage tank in the 80's) it ripped and collapsed. It was beautiful when in the winter the rain water that had collected turned to a solid chunk of ice.
  • Society #3 (detail)
    Society #3 (detail)
    water, wood, rope,& rubber, 7' x 7' x 7' a installation from 1990 Water is hard to control. For this piece to stand it took a multitude of different forces and support systems to come to life. A network A web It became about our inter-connectedness. Who knew these simple crude materials could transform into this. Certainly not I when I began this project. Follow your creativity for it is pregnant with whole new worlds we have yet to discover.
  • Machete
    Machete
    Found machete, furniture parts, hardware, chains, 3 photographs H-32" W-19" D-2"
  • Water Wars #1
    Water Wars #1
    Old garden hoses tightly wrapped into a sphere. 2' x 2' x 2' The first of the Water Wars Projects. I always loved rolling up big snowballs.
  • Golden Egg #2 (part of the; Water Wars series)
    Golden Egg #2 (part of the; Water Wars series)
    re-cycled tire treads .5' x 3' x 3' Many layers of used tire treads wrapped around an old small fiberglass water tank to create an egg or cocoon type of form. This piece is part of the Water Wars series. The tires are symbolic, for me, of oil and the Industrial Revolution. Oil is part of the root of the many power struggles today, but the real liquid gold of today and the future is fresh water and it will be though the power of oil that it will be controlled.
  • Water Wars #2 (detail)
    Water Wars #2 (detail)
    Old garden hoses wrapped in and around a crude copper armature to from a cairn or egg like form. 6' x 3' x 3'
  • Water Wars #2 (part of the Water Wars series)
    Water Wars #2 (part of the Water Wars series)
    Old garden hoses wrapped in and around a crude copper armature to from a cairn or egg like form. 6' x 3' x 3 Here in America some of us use water like it will always magically be there. Many people just don't think about it. Fresh water in the world is dwindling at a rapid pace. If 100 years ago we had started being more conscientious about how and what we did with our fresh water we might not be in this situation.
  • Synergy (detail)
    Synergy (detail)
    used copper fittings & pipe, 70" x 44" x 44" My brother knew I'd been sick for along time and called to tell me that the price of scrap copper was higher then it had ever been, so one day I walked up to the studio with the intention of gathering the copper for recycling to bring in a little cash. It only took moments for me to realize that there was to much history in these old pipes and fittings to recycle in that manner. Thus started the 3 year project to create this sculpture now known as "Synergy" Many memories merging to make a difference.
  • Synergy (part of the Water Wars series)
    Synergy (part of the Water Wars series)
    used copper fittings & pipe, 70" x 44" x 44" My brother knew I'd been sick for along time and called to tell me that the price of scrap copper was higher then it had ever been, so one day I walked up to the studio with the intention of gathering the copper for recycling to bring in a little cash. It only took moments for me to realize that there was to much history in these old pipes and fittings to recycle in that manner. Thus started the 3 year project to create this sculpture now known as "Synergy" Many memories merging to make a difference.
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