SOLAR INVOCATION, 2012, video still. Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, California
SOLAR INVOCATION, 2012, installation view. Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, California
SOLAR INVOCATION, 2012, installation view. Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, California
SOLAR INVOCATION, 2012, installation view and detail. Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, California
Blast Site: A Monument For Future Failures, 2011, day installation view. Cyanotype printed fabric, pallets, silver, clay, pigment, leather, wood, plants, dirt. Dimensions vary. Shangrila: New Moon, Joshua Tree. (Collaboration with Danielle McCullough)
Blast Site: A Monument For Future Failures, 2011, film projection/night installation view. 16 mm film projection on panel. Dimensions vary. Shangrila: New Moon, Joshua Tree. (Collaboration with Danielle McCullough)
Blast Site: A Monument For Future Failures, 2011, film projection/night installation view. 16 mm film projection on panel. Dimensions vary. Shangrila: New Moon, Joshua Tree. (Collaboration with Danielle McCullough)
Lady Noise and Friends: Untitled (Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, Oct. 16, 2011). Performance view. Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, site specific performance.
Unmanned Minerals: It Calls from the Creek, 2013, trailhead marker, dimensions variable. Seven poets living along the Deer Creek watershed were invited to submit poems about their water - our water. Their poems were, in turn, etched into signage placed along the trail to create a narrative wayfinding system about Deer Creek's impact on the greater water ecosystem. The guide leading the hiker through a landscape mediated by language is found at the trailhead. Deer Creek Tribute Trail, Nevada City, CA
Unmanned Minerals: It Calls from the Creek, 2013, detail of Nevada City geological strata paving stone, milled ABS plastic and colored concrete, dimensions variable. Deer Creek Tribute Trail, Nevada City, CA
Unmanned Minerals: It Calls from the Creek, 2013, detail of narrative signage with poetic quotes, mixed materials, dimensions variable. Deer Creek Tribute Trail, Nevada City, CA
Unmanned Minerals: It Calls from the Creek, 2013, detail view of interactive audio-playback device with prerecorded poems, mixed materials and solar powered electronics, dimensions variable. Deer Creek Tribute Trail, Nevada City, CA
Unmanned Minerals: Eucalyptus Carvers - A public art and poetry intervention in Elysian Park for the Elysian Park Museum of Art, 2010, installation view. Archival ink-jet prints temporarily attached to eucalyptus trees. Dimensions vary.
Unmanned Minerals: Eucalyptus Carvers, 2010, post-public art exhibition view, laser cut eucalyptus bark, rosen paper, board. Dimensions vary. Elysian Park Museum of Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).
X (Mystic Truth), 2011, C-Print, 16 x 20".
Artist Statement
My work is an exploration of the affect of degeneration, drone and decay that is experienced from living in the spatial disorganization of the twenty-first century. This disorganization is the result of living in multiple non-places at once—both physical and virtual— where borders are both confining and permeable. I often collaborate with other artists, musicians and poets to create work that embodies the difference of lived experience.
Through experimental sound improvisations at specific locations, I am able to abstractly tease out the emotional impact of these morphological conditions and create new situations which invoke a kind of self-reflexive examination of place. I push the material component of musical instruments through structured, improvised acts that evoke repetition and difference, but without the measured notation of music composition. By doing this I am able to summon the past and present simultaneously by freely exploring the morphological transformation of a site through the most ancient of all arts, music.
My photography and environmental installations are coded experiments with traditional signs and signifiers, to create a differential set of experiences. By placing poetry or abstract animated projections in landscape, I am able to summon a speculative situation for the viewer.