Select Works
Grab All the Shiny Things
2021—Ongoing. This series depicts wildlife dealing with and being distracted by human industrial residue, and are symbolic of our own tech addictions. Mixed media: Charcoal, graphite, photography, acrylic and oil based paints, found materials, discarded electronic parts.
Being There
2012—Ongoing. Charcoal and graphite.
Bureau of Missing Limbs
2011—Ongoing. The Bureau of Missing Limbs is a photographic essay about treating nature and meaning as disposable. I try to capture the found, unaltered specimens' noble qualities as abandoned relics. The collection currently includes over 70 trees.
Six Sense Organs
2000—2007. The Six Sense Organs series is about how personal identity is altered by emotion, and how misperception of who we are is influenced by technology, self-manipulation, confusion, or distraction. Part icon painting, part expressive self-portraiture and part documentation.
Vessels
1988—2008. Small selection of clay work.
Flux
1991—1994, 2016
Return To the Source
1989. Double exposed 35mm film. This series is inspired by the goal of non-duality and the enlightenment journey expressed within the traditional Mahayana Buddhist illustrations of the 'Ten Ox Herding pictures'.
Young Stuff
1977—1989