Fluff
2016
Milkweed fluff, galvanized wire
16” x 156” x 88”
Fluff references both the minimalist aesthetics of form and the natural materials it is made from. The installation is composed of milkweed fluff arranged in a simple rectangle. The delicate qualities of the fluff and its natural susceptibility to the slightest changes in the air currents in the room suggest it could all just blow away.
Flock
2010
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Aluminum
168” x 28' x 12”
As if arrested mid-flight, Flock evokes mass movement of birds, their aerial dance frozen in a sprawling pattern. From a distance, the play of light and shadow on a large wall creates an abstract pattern. Moving closer, the work is revealed to be hundreds of individual aluminum airplanes stuck nose-first into the wall.
Franken Forest
2010
Agnes Etherington Art Centre / Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery
Cedar logs, drywall screws, nails, Christmas lights, glass, wax, paper, steel, spandex, DVD projector
288” x 432” x 216”
Franken Forest questions our real and imagined relationship with nature. Combining video projection with sculpture, this installation uses industrial and natural materials to evoke an unfamiliar, uncanny forest. Real trees are reassembled with a variety of materials that obscure or cloak their true nature; other trees are constructed entirely from industrial materials. A video projection of an animated tree canopy plays out above the viewers' heads. The animation, created from thousands of individual stills from numerous forest walks, is dreamlike in its speed and fragmentation. Playing with the tension of both the real and the imagined, Franken Forest speaks to our constructed notions of the natural world around us.
Log Jam
2009
Cedar logs, bamboo barbeque sticks
Dimensions variable, approx. 48”x 84”x 132’”
The woodpile is a commonplace icon; Log Jam transforms this mundane and domestic sculptural grouping into something strange and unfamiliar. Using mass produced bamboo barbeque skewers to amour a group of cedar logs, these modular forms, randomly grouped, become reminiscent of other natural shapes such as porcupines, sea creatures, seed pods or burrs.
Looks Like Rain
2008
Pyrex glass rods
120” x 432” x 60”
In Looks Like Rain it is difficult for the viewer to determine the distance of the glass rods from the wall. It is a fundamental human desire to know where we are in space. This piece confounds our ability to do that, unbalancing our assumptions of how we expect the world to be.
It is constructed of 750 pyrex glass rods.
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