Sculpture and Installation
JOB SITE
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
6'x2'x2'
2018
Photographs, lumber, sandbags
6'x2'x2'
The JOB SITE project is a meeting and merging of sculpture and photography.
The project is a study of Frank Lloyd Wrights iconic house and his examination of that which divides nature from architecture. In his buildings, nature sometimes lives inside.
The massive cold rock cliffs become both the interior and exterior walls and the stream
runs literally through the lower level of the house. This risky construction is
now owned and cared for by a preservation society whose entry fees from tourists are its primary source of income.
There are scaffolds and carpenters on site year round. It takes all of this structural support, large amounts of money, many laborers, tools, and preservation society to keep this house alive today.
I have been photographing architectural sites for a number of years now, watching as buildings of monumental and modernist stature are now facing their decline, eroded, ironically, by nature,
and in need of repair.
Falling Water is a real-time enactment of the crumbling heroics of Monumentality.
The project is a study of Frank Lloyd Wrights iconic house and his examination of that which divides nature from architecture. In his buildings, nature sometimes lives inside.
The massive cold rock cliffs become both the interior and exterior walls and the stream
runs literally through the lower level of the house. This risky construction is
now owned and cared for by a preservation society whose entry fees from tourists are its primary source of income.
There are scaffolds and carpenters on site year round. It takes all of this structural support, large amounts of money, many laborers, tools, and preservation society to keep this house alive today.
I have been photographing architectural sites for a number of years now, watching as buildings of monumental and modernist stature are now facing their decline, eroded, ironically, by nature,
and in need of repair.
Falling Water is a real-time enactment of the crumbling heroics of Monumentality.
SITE LINE
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35'x4'x6'
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35'x4'x6'
COLBY MUSEUM OF ART in Watertown, Maine.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
SITE LINE
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35 x 4 x 6 feet
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35 x 4 x 6 feet
COLBY MUSEUM OF ART in Watertown, Maine.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
SITE LINE
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35 x 4 x 6 feet
2016
Plywood, cork, tiles, shag chenille carpet, recycled foam stuffing
Overall: 35 x 4 x 6 feet
COLBY MUSEUM OF ART in Watertown, Maine.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
Site-specific installation, commissioned by the Colby Museum of Art.
Terraced wood platforming, covered with cork tile and a series of Shag Chenille Topiary Chairs providing functional seating for viewing or being viewed.
SECOND HOME (Bakalar Gallery, Mass College of Art)
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
A-Frame house kits became popular in the 60’s and 70’s. They were available at the local lumberyard for $3000.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
SECOND HOME (Bakalar Gallery, Mass College of Art)
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
A-Frame house kits became popular in the 60’s and 70’s. They were available at the local lumberyard for $3000.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
SECOND HOME (Bakalar Gallery, Mass College of Art)
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
A-Frame house kits became popular in the 60’s and 70’s. They were available at the local lumberyard for $3000.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
SECOND HOME (Bakalar Gallery, Mass College of Art)
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
2005
2"x4"s plywood and video projections
14'x15'x16'
A-Frame house kits became popular in the 60’s and 70’s. They were available at the local lumberyard for $3000.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
This A-Frame, with one end up on stilts, can still be traversed by the viewer who enters by stepping through the roof beams and onto the slanted floor.
Video projections cover the windows and doors.
BEGIN AGAIN (installation at SITE SANTA FE)
1999
carpet, wood and video
1999
carpet, wood and video
Two plaid carpet runners, 70 ft long each, navigate the viewer through two rooms of the gallery. Wooden benches, replicas of George Nelsons 1947 Platform Bench, are upended and half buried in the carpet. Plywood and 2”x4” replace the maple and ebony of the original benches.
BEGIN AGAIN (installation at SITE SANTA FE)
1999
carpet, wood and video
1999
carpet, wood and video
Two plaid carpet runners, 70 ft long each, navigate the viewer through two rooms of the gallery. Wooden benches, replicas of George Nelsons 1947 Platform Bench, are upended and half buried in the carpet. Plywood and 2”x4” replace the maple and ebony of the original benches.
BEGIN AGAIN (installation at SITE SANTA FE)
1999
carpet, wood and video
1999
carpet, wood and video
Two plaid carpet runners, 70 ft long each, navigate the viewer through two rooms of the gallery. Wooden benches, replicas of George Nelsons 1947 Platform Bench, are upended and half buried in the carpet. Plywood and 2”x4” replace the maple and ebony of the original benches.
BEGIN AGAIN (installation at SITE SANTA FE)
1999
carpet, wood and video
1999
carpet, wood and video
Two plaid carpet runners, 70 ft long each, navigate the viewer through two rooms of the gallery. Wooden benches, replicas of George Nelsons 1947 Platform Bench, are upended and half buried in the carpet. Plywood and 2”x4” replace the maple and ebony of the original benches.