The Big Draw, 2023, Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
Accumulating Lines Away From My Body, Accumulating Lines In A Circular Motion,
Accumulating Lines Toward My Body, 2004 - 2005, Prismacolor black pencil on tracing paper with sound recordings of each session. Each drawing 150 feet in length.
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Bridge Project Art in the Round, Denver, CO, 2022
Submission for Bridge Project's Art in the Round Fundraiser Gala Event. A dichotomy of materials. 5,412 cross section hand cut pieces of bicycle inner tube and twelve inch wood round.
Pirate Contemporary Art, Lakewood, CO, 2020-2022
Catalyst is about anyone being a catalyst for change and evolution toward a better self. In turn making the world a better place. A transformation from one state to a different state of being. It is about the interconnection between all things, not just people. A shared experience that allows for an awakening to our place and potential in the world.
Catalyst 2,000,000 is the extension of a previous installation and performance in 2018 about a repeated action intended to induce mindfulness and a meditative state. The act of making, assembling and accumulating, a type of accretion can be a path to transcendence. The subtle action of threading suggest the viewer’s personal engagement with the environments they occupy, both natural and industrial. The process of observing and introspecting completes the work as a mindful experience. I believe to effectively navigate the external world and create positive change one must be internally centered and mindful of their present situation and state of mind, this includes an empathetic perspective of how we effect everything around us. From this understanding a realization emerges about how we repeat everyday actions and should mindfully view the importance of these actions, no matter how small as contributing to the construct of our reality. For Catalyst I cut 2,000,000 cross section circular pieces of rubber from thousands of bicycle inner tubes, counting and documenting each piece in a ledger. For the performance accompanying the installation I hand-thread each piece onto sections of rope. Prints are inked strands of threaded rubber pressed onto 44x44inch pieces of paper using the weight of my body.
The Language of Trees, Bridge Project, Denver CO, 2022
Assembling the Congregation was an installation and performance for a show titled The Language of Trees composed of one hundred charcoal drawings on the backside of used 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper using photo references of trees from around the world. Accompanying this installation was the sound of bio-acoustic seismic microphone recordings from inside and near trees. There is a scared interconnection to my relationship of any eco-system. Trees are one of many living communicating entities essential to the sustainability of our biosphere. For myself drawing is a type of deconstruction of an object in order to understand how it functions and why it appears the way it does. Through observation and repetitive rendering of these trees I am able to deconstruct each one and re-assemble them as a global forest, a congregation where their language is spoken.
Collective Nouns, 2022 Faculty Show, Metro State University of Denver Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO
The Akashic Record is a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms. Encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the mental plane. Thoughts, words, intent, etc. generate their own unique frequency of vibration stored in the Record.
This piece is part of a larger installation composed of three smaller projects. I believe everything a person creates, their gestures, actions, the way they perform everyday tasks is a type of self-portrait. Defining moments imbued with their identity. In art some pieces are specifically designed to be self-referential, to communicate an introspective moment, most often one of self-realization. There are many reasons why a self-portrait manifests. In this instance it may be an accumulation of experiences that have or are leading to definitive change. I am the person that I am today because of shared experiences with everything and everyone I have ever encountered. The energy of these experiences vibrate outward and inward expanding externally and internally, a macro and micro dialogue. Looking at this project in relationship to the greater dimensional universe I see it as an Akashic Portrait.
