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.