Supra tidal began as periodic drawing sessions on the Puget Sound beaches near where I live. During these exercises I tried to imagine how this landscape looked before the arrival of Europeans. My takeaway from the experience was more that of observing the land, sea and sky for hours on end and resulted with the cloud carving series shown in my Supra tidal installation at the Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
March, 2011. Image credits: Mark Woods Photography
Parallax is the idea that an object viewed from multiple locations can appear different from each perspective. I like to think that applies to not just geography but also events in time or perceptions versus reality. Utilizing imagery I have seen in travel or in books, Parallax moved back in forth in my memory to examine how time has changed perceptions of what is true for me. G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
April, 2018. Installation images credit: Mark Woods Photography
This piece shows a video that contrasts clips of elemental rhythms and workings of nature with images of conflict, climate change and unrest. Shown at G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA. 2017
Displacement was the culmination of my time as a Seattle University Visiting Artist in Residence.
The installation took a look at the changing urban environment in Seattle and how income disparity was having an affect on the way people and creatures live in a city. Vachon Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, 2016
Ruta Alternativa was part of an exhibition titled Free Play at the Sun Valley Museum of Art, that considered the relationship between design and creativity in social spaces dedicated to recreation and play. Visitors could choose to sit down to a game of oversized checkers or climb the ladders to transit the upper section and consider the alternate perspective the piece offered. Sun Valley Museum of Art, Sun Valley, Idaho. 2020
Diaphaneity was an installation that ruminated upon the ever changing nature of memory. It considered how memory acts like a sieve containing not all aspects of the truth but those most important to the beholder. Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA. 2006
Image credits: Eduardo Calderon, Matt Sellars
Like its sister exhibition Diaphaneity, Common Soil considered the ever changing nature of memory from a collective perspective; that we all operate from the same soil and into it we return, our memories contributing to a whole. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Hailey Satellite Gallery, Hailey, Idaho. 2007
Turning the Sun's Light to Glass is about the experience of discovery in a place that reveals its charms slowly to those willing to invest time. Refer to blog post 2 in the Wander section to read about the experience. Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA. 2009