The Bollywood Series, P.O.R. (2016-2018)
In The Bollywood Series, I build talisman - reminiscent of minkisi (spirit-inhabited African nail figures) - to protect and celebrate the power of beauty in the face of societal and global insanity. Rather than obsess over things I can not control, I obsessively control the surfaces of my objects. I pound power into the wood and lavish focus enough to animate these sentinels. I use meditatively obsessive beauty as a weapon against all ugliness.
Global Warming Damages Symbiotic Organisms
32”x4”x4”
oak, glass beads, vinyl heishi, inkjet print, encaustic medium, nails, Bakelite balls, metallic silver leaf
Global Warming Damages Symbiotic Organisms (detail)
oak, glass beads, vinyl heishi, inkjet print, encaustic medium, nails, Bakelite balls, metallic silver leaf
Global Warming Damages Symbiotic Organisms (detail)
32”x4”x4”
oak, glass beads, vinyl heishi, inkjet print, encaustic medium, nails, Bakelite balls, metallic silver leaf
Global Warming Damages Symbiotic Organisms (detail)
32”x4”x4”
oak, glass beads, vinyl heishi, inkjet print, encaustic medium, nails, Bakelite balls, metallic silver leaf
Global Warming Damages Symbiotic Organisms (detail)
32”x4”x4”
oak, glass beads, vinyl heishi, inkjet print, encaustic medium, nails, Bakelite balls, metallic silver leaf
cube*
Many Hands Make Light Work (detail)
36”x5”x2.5”
Reclaimed painted fence, pine, vinyl heishi, copper brads, inkjet print, encaustic medium
Bit ‘O Joy, 2017-2018
23.5”x9”x5.5” Maple, rods, inkjet print, encaustic medium, glass beads, nails
UN Warns That 40% of Pollinators Face Extinction, 2017-2018
23.5”x9”x5.5” Maple, rods, inkjet print, encaustic medium, ostrich shell heishi, glass beads, nails
Many Hands Make Light Work
Reclaimed painted fence, pine, vinyl heishi, copper brads, inkjet print, encaustic medium
NOAA Partners Predict Severe Harmful Algal Bloom for Lake Erie (back)
oak, pixilated digital images, vinyl heishi, white-eye beads, reclaimed glass beads, nails, encaustic medium, plastic beads, 11”x5”x5.5” each
NOAA Partners Predict Severe Harmful Algal Bloom for Lake Erie (front)
11”x5”x5.5” each
oak, pixilated digital images, vinyl heishi, white-eye beads, reclaimed glass beads, nails, encaustic medium, plastic beads
NOAA Partners Predict Severe Harmful Algal Bloom for Lake Erie (detail)
oak, pixilated digital images, vinyl heishi, white-eye beads, reclaimed glass beads, nails, encaustic medium, plastic beads, 11”x5”x5.5” each
Penguins Take to Treadmills for Science
discarded pine board, digital image, encaustic medium, silver leaf, recycled glass beads, nails, ~ 12"x12"x1"
Penguins Take to Treadmills for Science (detail)
discarded pine board, digital image, encaustic medium, silver leaf, recycled glass beads, nails, ~ 12"x12"x1"
Silver Shad
11”x5”x5.5”
maple, glass beads, clay beads, inkjet print, encaustic medium, nails, vinyl heishi, metallic silver leaf
Silver Shad (detail)
11”x5”x5.5”
maple, glass beads, clay beads, inkjet print, encaustic medium, nails, vinyl heishi, metallic silver leaf
Cacophony
oak, African vinyl disks, reclaimed glass beads, nails, tacks 11”x4”x4”
Cacophony (detail)
oak, African vinyl disks, reclaimed glass beads, nails, tacks 11”x4”x4”
Bone wedge, side view, 2016
11”x5”x5.5”
maple, birch bark, bone beads, glass beads, plastic beads, ceramic beads, inkjet print,
encaustic medium, nails