Catalyst 2,057,244

Seed, BRDG Project, Denver, CO, 2020-2024

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 2,057,244 is the latest iteration of Catalyst 2,000,000  presented at Pirate Contemporary Art in 2022 and part of a project that originated in 2018. For Catalyst I hand-cut 2,057,244 cross section circular pieces of rubber from thousands of bicycle inner tubes, counting and documenting each piece in a ledger and threaded them onto twelve foot sections of black rope. Here the loops are shown in a pile but can be displayed in various ways.

 

Intertwined 270

 Art in the Round, BRDG Project, 2024

Submission for BRDG Project's Art in the Round Fundraiser Gala Event. The premise for this project was based on the idea of cosmic consciousness and parallel or alternate universes. A 270 foot single strand of black rope is laced and woven between both sides of the wood round creating conical shapes with the beginning and end exposed.

Five Possible Permutations

Five Possible Permutations, 2024

Does the idea of something serving the function of art require the presence of another? In this instance presence presented itself as activation of a space at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, patrons moving through an exhibition breezeway, moving left to right, right to left, sitting, standing, and absent.

I began investigating the museum space when a patron said, “art is not in the museum, it is the museum.” What brings a museum to life? What makes it a museum? The complicity of the people occupying it, transversing the spaces appeared paramount to defining its purpose.

 

Body Motion Drawings

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.

Integration 5,412

Art in the Round, BRDG Project, 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. 

Catalyst 2,000,000

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.