Category: Object
This series is composed of cardboard signs gilded with imitation gold leaf. The ground of the cardboard is stained with red ink. The imagery and text is cut…
Imitation gold leaf on tar paper mounted on a wooden lattice. Birds are collaged from art historical references of crows, ravens, and magpies.
A six foot tall and forty two feet wide gilded screen made of tar paper. The imagery is a collage of art historical references of ships at sea…
Ink drawings of stones on translucent paper. The drawings are layered with a cheese cloth veil to create different layers of a diffused landscape of stones.
A series of 15 animated metamorphing drawings of Scholar Stones derived from sixty drawings. Each animation morphs between 2 to 6 of the original drawings. Each video will…
This book appears to be the autobiographical account of a young man adrift at sea. It is in part a tale of survival but it is intertwined with…
Seventy seven erasure poems made from The Lord’s Prayer. They are printed on translucent paper and the audience is invited to rearrange the prayers as they see fit….
A series of eight hinged book pieces incorporating drawings imbedded in reclaimed barn wood.
A series of 77 icon inspired contemplative pieces. Right before the COVID-19 pandemic started I began a series of explorations by melting plastic communion cups. This series incarnates…
A light trap made from a imitation gold leaf cardboard box. A dried pomegranate taped to a broken barn beam with gold duct tape.
A series of ten sculptures made of communion wafers, stones and marcescene leaves. Marcescene Beech leaves are dead leaves that stay attached to the living branches through the…
A series of site specific drawings made while kneeling with objects found nearby. The marks map the extent of my reach.
A series of 24 veils that rose twenty feet. The forest depicted on the veils were inspired by my walks through the West Michigan woods. The veils were…
A meditative labyrinth drawn in sumi ink with finger tips on repurposed sketchbook pages. The form of the floor mat was determined by my reach while kneeling. The…
Constructed from pages of Art Forum magazine these geometric forms are inspired by Islamic Quilt patterns. 72×42 inches.
Still images of a variable size video projection installation. The video is shot in 4k and is available in an edition of 3. It is 24 minutes long.
A series of six cut and folded paper pieces based on the ceilings of different cathedrals, basilicas, and chapels. They can be hung both vertically and horizontally. They…
As a response to my time as Artist in Residence at Fruitlands Museum I made a large roll of book pages. The focus of the year at the…
An interactive meditative labyrinth that allows each user to design their own labyrinth based on a journey of their own. Installation at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA.
Series of six cut and folded paper pieces based on Islamic mosaic patterns.
Series of cut and folded low relief paper sculptures. Made from pages of my copy of H.D. Thoreau’s Journal. 10×10″
Confessional Labyrinth. Pages of Augustine’s Confessions and a meditation stool. 240″ x 240″ Opposite the Confessional Labyrinth is the Hermetic Labyrinth. Pages of Thoreau’s Walden and a meditation stool. 240″ x 240″ Installation view at the Piano…
Black Labyrinth #2, sumi ink and oils stick on paper. 21″ x 14″ Black Labyrinth #1, sumi ink on paper. 21″ x 14″
Drawing on pages from The Brothers Karamazov. White mulberry paper, gold leaf, meditation stool. Installation view at the Piano Craft Gallery. 128″ x 40″
Fifty wooden icons with sumi ink, gold leaf and three meditation stools. Dimensions vary. Installation view at the Piano Craft Gallery.
A bottomless shelf made from walnut containing rolled scrolls from Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Each scroll has a golden brace inserted inside of it. Over time, depending on the current obstacles,…
For four weeks the artist tried to teach a white stone to say the word “father.” This ritual occurred at various times most days of the month of…
The following image is a digital composite The above image is a digital composite of a series of drawings made upon the pages of my personal copy of…
Over the course of 30 minutes I drew 28 circles of black sand. On the wall beside me a video projected the following poem: Widening Circles translation by…
During my residency at Zeleny Les I created a patchwork paper curtain with a wooden frame on either end. The curtain was hung in the woods with a small bench…
The first of my framed remnants from my performance Searching for a Honey Tree with Fear and Trembling. The piece the description of the performance along with the…
A series of twelve Altar Stones inside glass cloches. The various stones have become vessels to hold a mixture of charcoal and raw honey. Six of the series are…
Over the course of 2 hours and 25 minutes I cut two Codfish into five thousand pieces. The performance took place outside of the iconic Motif #1 fish…
The Relics from my performance Five Loaves of Bread Broken Into Five Thousand Pieces
The relics of my “…in a drifting boat with a slow leakage” T.S. Eliot installation.
An edition of ten relics from my 77 Hammers Hammering One Nail or The Kneeling Confessional framed in shadow boxes meant to lie flat.
In response to the censoring of one of my pieces I responded with this piece. A torn sail strung up like a hammock obscures a book containing T.S….
An English translation of both the Quran and the Bible are merged together both in conflict and an embrace.
While wearing an icon of St. Francis preaching to birds I fed the seagulls of Rockport Mass. Photos courtesy of Janee Lookerse.
On a prayer mat made of books I prayed until the rain stopped. My body kept some pages dry and the mat kept the ground dry.
For six days, beginning Monday May 12th and ending Saturday May 17th, the artist occupied this space for as long as it took for the text Fear and…
Over the course of three hours and seven minutes i wrote the following poem with chalk on a chalk board:Suppose we did our workLike the snow, quietly, quietly,Leaving…
Over the course of seven hours and forty six minutes I broke five loaves of bread into 5000 pieces with a few crusts left over. The piece took…
In this performance 77 unfired clay hammers were used to hammer a single nail into a block of wood.