New Work 2010/2011


 


















Chopped video
An alternate angle from work in Circumstance, at the UC Gallery 
at The University of Montana 






Edited Video of Chop 




Chop Performance 




This was an installation in the Off Center Gallery at the University of Montana.


The inspiration for this piece comes from actual events.  Imagine running in the dark, during a cool summer night in northern Michigan, and flying through the air is a flaming 2x4;WACK!!! The 2x4 connects with your head.  All memories have an impact on one’s life and leave a mark that can be both psychological and physical. It is the physicality of this memory that is recreated in this block of clay.

The clay becomes the surrogate for this action. Clay is the ideal material because of its ability to capture an action in its totality.  I want the viewer to come to a place of calm, which is then violated by the flame and sound of impact. Through this interruption I am asking the viewers to place themselves with in the piece and assimilate with my memory.




This is a video of an installation that happened in the sculpture gallery at the University of Montana on 1-11-2011 


Clay has had close relations with humans since the first ceramic objects entered the home. It is a material rich with history and memory as fired objects. However, it also has the potential to record actual physical memories or events. I want the viewer to feel like an active participant within this installation, as the piece is completed once everyone has been participated. With the clay recording the experience, I want the viewers to enter a place where they are creating, smelling, feeling and having a physical conversation with the clay.

Inspiration for this piece has come from the material itself and from the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar landing.  When the astronauts stepped off the lunar module, their impressions were captured in the lunar surface, virtually forever. Clay has this same potential to capture events in time.  In its malleable form clay can accept an impression, and hold that impression permanently. 









Missoula MT

Missoula MT