Smaller Projetcs

Image one is of "New Poets and Philosophers (4HDT)".

"New Poets and Philosophers (4HDT)" is a small corner installation comprised of the acrylic PMPLM lamps and the ABS plastic PMEEP wall panels from the "Pine Marten Installation" as well as three foam and fabric "Rabbitlab Mountain Seating" seating units. Also included is a birch plywood magazine rack filled with contemporary art, design and architecture magazines (along with some other types). The installation is a reference to Henry David Thoreau's "Walden Pond", specifically when he talks about the two visitors who meant the most to him and intellectually recharged him during his self-isolation.

2002

Image two is of "Dance, Monkey! Dance!".

"Dance Monkey! Dance!" is a pair of identical speakers designed to be used on the desktop. They are made of MDF coated with an automotive finish. The tweeter fire upwards from beneath the "monkey skull" icon while the woofer fires downwards to use the desk or table as a resonant surface. It was made last minute for an art fair, hence the title.

2003

Image three is of "Untitled (Georgia's Clouds and Poisonous Plastics)".

This piece is made out of four different vacuum formed plastic panels arranged in four rows of each panel. Some are made of acrylic and lit from within and some are made from ABS and coated in automotive finish. Each different panel has a cloud on it and as the panel descends the cloud is replace with a smaller version, in reference to Georgia O'Keeffe's abstract cloud paintings. Also represented on the panels in descending order is a molecular diagram of PVC degrading into the poison dioxin.

2001

Image four is of "Place Setting for the New Chinatown Barbershop".

"Place Setting for the New Chinatown Barbershop" is made of a pair of store bought tourist chopsticks, a birch plywood napkin ring and a wool with Scotchlite napkin (same material used in the costumes for the "Pine Marten Installation"). It is meant as a description of the new state Los Angeles' Chinatown has entered since it's becoming a destination for contemporary art.

2003

Image five is of the "Pasadena Water Pavilion".

The "Pasadena Water Pavilion" is a steel and ipe hardwood bench that hold two polyethylene jugs of water that have access valves on their bottoms. The water in these jugs came from the sources of the Arroyo Seco and San Gabriel rivers. These two rivers geographically define the area of Pasadena. The pavilion was placed in a public park across the street from the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts. It was meant as a place where people could stop and drink from the sources of their two major rivers. Cups were provided by the Armory Center.

2004

Images six through ten are of "Rabbitlab".

"Rabbitlab" is an installation where I converted my graduate school studio into an environment where I would enter each day don a rabbit suit and compose electronic music. It had a doorway that had a carpeted "hill" one would have to navigate in order to enter and visitors were encouraged to wear a pair of rabbit ears while in the space. The floor of the space was carpeted over four inches of soft foam giving it a "squishy" effect. The space was lit with vacuum formed polyethylene "Cloud Lamps" and cast polyurethane "Tree Lamps". Also foam and fabric "Mountain Seating" was provided. There was also a stereo system in the form of a tree and two giant daffodils, made out of MDF, foam, steel and plastic and finished in automotive lacquer.

1999-2000

Images eleven through fifteen are of "Iceberg (evolving discothèque)".

Artist Lance Winn and I were invited to do a week long project at New Langton Arts for their show, Sliv and Dullet Present the Summer Line. During that week Lance and I endeavored to build a structure and compose an album with accompanying video. These are essentially images of the process of both building the Coroplast structure and composing the music using electronic instruments and sounds from the space.

2003

Images sixteen through eighteen are of the "Water Kiosk".

"Water Kiosk" is a structure made of galvanized steel, ipe hardwood and glass water jugs. It was made for the High Desert Test Sites 2 art event in Joshua Tree, California and is situated on a remote property in the high desert. The idea was to create a structure that would enable the viewers to enjoy the landscape in lieu of contrasting the sculpture with the landscape. The initial question was, "what do people need to make the desert more hospitable to relax in and enjoy?". The simple answer was seating, shade and water. To further this mode of simplification and essentialism I decided to get the water from the absolute sources of where water is imported from for Southern California. I ended up traveling and gathering water from the headwaters of the Owens, Sacramento and Colorado rivers and offering it to drink in the three bottles integrated into the kiosk.

2003

Image nineteen is of "CH4U (smellerator)".

"CH4U" is an ABS plastic shape about sixteen inches in diameter coated with automotive urethane and mounts on the wall. It houses a push-button fan mechanism and a sponge soaked with Channel Coco and blows out scent when the central button is pressed. Its shape is based on the molecular diagram of methane.

2000