"The Waiter" Series

1999 - Present. Panoramic Photo series.
This project has been in the works for many years. The Waiter series is about Love and Hate, Good and Bad, Yin and Yang etc. Waiting is a job that is never ending. Customers come and go but the Waiter is continuous. So the Waiter diligently searches for his/her out. i hate waiting tables, but i love to travel... and the one allowed for the other to happen. The photos here do not really do The Waiter justice, because each complete Waiter photo is a panoramic consisting of any where from 4 to 10 different shots that are attached together to create one big photo... sometimes with multiple images of the Waiter and sometimes just one. This series is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year.

"Hare"

2006. 10" x 16 1/2" x 7". Wire on wood.
This is the first in a series titled "Trophies". Obviously inspired by wild game head trophies, only a little more eloquent and comical. i envision a total of 20 or 30 Trophies on opposite walls of a long, narrow white room and the viewer walks down the center.

"Cicada"

2005. 7" x 14 1/2" x 3". Wire.
The first of the Insect Collection. i have always been interested in entomology and i love the visual of how insects are displayed in collections... so i decided to create my own collection of insects.

"Luna Moth"

2005. 11" x 10" x 2 1/2". Wire.
This is the second addition to the Insect Collection. i see myself adding new insects to the collection for the rest of my Life.

"Spider"

1996 - 2003. 80" x 96" x 24". Wire and cotton wood.
i like spiders. It took me awhile to finish this piece. i was traveling a lot and the piece would get crushed and i would have to re-shape it. Finally i finished the spider then i had to figure out how to display it. i tried to get it to look as if the spider in creating its web also created the wooden frame.

"Untitled"

2003. 18" x 24". Acrylic paint and sand on board.
This one was for my mom.

"Self Portrait at Time of Conception"

2002. 18" x 24" x 3". Wire on board.
This piece was selected for The Biennial Alaska Juried Craft Exhibition titled "Earth, Fire and Fibre XXIV". i was a little surprised that it was selected because it's not really a "craft" piece and it definately wasn't like any other piece in the show. Still, i was happy to have it shown.

"Anatomy of a Hand"

2002 - 1996. 24" x 18" x 3". Wire on board.
This is the first wire piece that i ever started... there were a few that i finished before this piece, but this is the one that gave birth to all the others. It is a 3 dimensional line drawing of every bone in the hand and wrist and start of the forearm.

"Spirit Mask I"

2002 -. 18 1/2 " x 5" x 4 1/2 ". Plaster, acrylic paint, and feather.
This is the first of a series. The series mocks what traditional spirit masks have become... another means to make a buck$. Each mask has a punctuation mark and the facial expression on the mask corresponds with that punctuation mark.

"Conspiracy"

2002. 2' x 6' . Acrylic paint on hard board.
Paint was rapidly applied to board to give the image a feeling of high energy and a sense that what you are seeing is a snapshot of many bodies moving in all directions.

"An American Beauty"

2001. 5 1/2" x 5 1/2". Acrylic paint on hard board.
Silhouette of an angered American whose race and gender are both uncertain and unimportant to the piece... only the eyes and nose are detailed.

"Beaver"

2001. 4' x 4'. Plywood, acrylic paint, eye bolts, and a birch wood stick.
i found this stick while fishing in Alaska. i thought it was beautiful. i loved the fact that the stick had been robbed of all its bark and cut at both ends by a beaver... it inspired the art piece. The plywood and paint are more of a sexual backdrop to the art work that the beaver did on the stick.

"AXE"

2001. 13" x 29". Charcoal and oil sticks on paper.
During an art session with a friend, i knocked this piece out in about 2 minutes. i love it. It is a reminder of the intensity of our artistic frenzy that night.

"Self Portrait III"

2001. 32" x 26". Oil paint on hard board.
This is a symbolic self portrait. The miter represents my Catholic up bringing. The black militaristic bill on the miter is for the military influence from my father while growing up. The ravens flying out of the miter represents thoughts that would be considered "taboo" by the two institutions that influenced my early thinking.

"Self Portrait II"

2000. 4" x 3". Linoleum cut.
This piece was originally thought of in 1994 and i did some priliminary drawings and a rough painting... then the idea sat for many years. i did this lino cut while i was working on the final oil painting. i will probably recreate this piece again in the future.

"Dragonfly"

2000. 30" x 24" x 4". Wire.
This piece was a wedding present for some friends of mine. Though not the first wire piece that i started it is the first one that i completed.