In the Garden of Tomorrow, 2015 4.25" x 5.5" (folded); 17" x 22"(open) Paper, cherry tree bark
Scanned player piano roll, “In the Garden of Tomorrow” Ballad. Words by George Graffe; Music by Jessie L Deppen. Printed by Mastertouch, Chappell & Co, Sydney, Australia 1926.
What kinds of gardens lie in our future? Images of austere black and white foliage and a player piano roll of a popular, postWorld War I tune ask this question. Pages bound by fibrous and red floral patterned paper are tabbed with cherry tree bark guiding the reader as she turns pages front to back, finally arriving back at the beginning. Like the piano roll, the book loops endlessly, disrupting the linearity of time. The lyrics read bottom to top and refer to markers of time and place. In the garden, beauty is physical, sensuous, material, tangible and fleeting—it must be experienced today, as the future is full of risk, uncertainty and inevitable loss.
Grid Over a Landscape, 2015 4.25" x 4.25" x .5" (closed) 9" x 7" x 1.5" (open) Paper
Grid Over a Landscape employs a Turkish map folding technique in an artist book that suggests a reconciliation between natural and cultural geometries describing place and systems. An imposed grid is drawn over hypothetical topography with a strong will窶馬o matter what it traverses. Open, the anywhere/nowhere-landscape spills out and pops up. Closed, folded, it is seemingly neatly packed in a portable book.
Large Scale Exit Plan, 2015
10" x 7.75" x 1.75" Found box, found paper, cotton string.
Title and collaged paper are taken from a World War ll-era map produced to evacuate the city of London, England in the event of catastrophic bombing. As a present day artifact, this box, bound tightly in string to be cut in case of emergency, is labeled for storage awaiting need. The box contents remain a mystery but a single exterior reference graphic— an altitude legend—suggests elevation might be the most vital information for future catastrophe.
Janteloven, 2009 10" x 20"
Drawing on found book parts.
Withdrawn, 2004
6 1/2" x 8" Paper on found book parts.
Valuation, 2004
3 ½" x 2" x 2" Soda bottle, found text, french press part, plastic mesh, linen string.
Vanity (You Are What You Eat), 1999 3" x 3" Bone, wax, cosmetic case. Private Collection.
Listeners-in, Lookers-on, 1996 8" x 7" Paper, nails, string and acrylic on panel.
Secret, 1996 6" x 10" Paper, leaf.
Private Collection.
You can take it with you, 1997 9" x 12" Paper, ink, and push pin on panel. Private Collection. Personal life inventory inspired by the ancient Chinese practice of burying an list of belongings that the deceased would take with them into the afterlife.
Q & A, 1996
14" x 11" Found text and beeswax on found book parts. Private Collection.
Universe, 1996
12" x 10" Beeswax, oil, paper collage. Private collection.