Assemblage: Oil on wood, wire, objects. 14"h x 20"w x 6"d. As if the Holocaust weren't bad enough, I envisioned a connection between the prisoner and his dream of children, which turned out to be another nightmare, that of child soldiers in our time. Doing the research was heartbreaking.
Why don't I throw much away? There many layers to this answer. I see the value in many things we just discard in todays in western societies. It just has always seemed natural that instead of throwing something out, meaning putting it into the garbage, where it will be trucked to some landfill to be buried into the ground (this is the out of sight out of mind game we play), I would rather hold onto things so someone else might use it, or some part of it. At least it might be re-cycled in some fashion or another, or if it can't be used for anything, often it will still have some scrap value.
"The map is not the territory." - Alfred Korzybski
The source of my art has always come from nature and the landscape. The changes and cycles nature goes through are part of my focus in making art.
These are my latest sculptures. They are constructed from pine wood and willow. The pine wood was collected from the marshes of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In the winter the marsh is burned to promote new growth in the spring.
This series of sculptures represent a departure from my previous work ( in Section Four) in the fact that they are free standing and not wall hung. This evolution away from the wall led me to focus on the more three dimensional qualities of my materials and the more subtle use of space.
The sculptures are constructed from pine wood gathered from the marshes of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and willow. I had been working with these materials before but at this time I started to see the wood in more comprehensive way.
This section is a series of drawings using a combination of water color and color pencils.
In 2020 I could not work on the sculpture because of knee surgery. While recuperating I started drawing with some color pencils I had.
These are a collection of free standing and wall hung works.
Some of the materials they were constructed from include sun flowers, hibiscus, straw, corn stalks, bamboo leaves, Joe Pye weed,, groundsel, dog fennel and phragmites.
These Unconventional Portraits are interpreted from a handful of press photographs from various angles.
Mixed Media materials used are; wood, wire, muslin, acrylic paint, paper, hemp & miscellaneous found materials.
These works primarily consist of light and electricity. The electronic components used to control the electricity are free form soldered as prominent elements in sculptural composition. In addition, the circuitry controls the timing of the light, while rubber, conductive thread, consumer packaging and paper alter the quality of that light.