2020, 12” x 15”, this received Best Sculpture Award at Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY), by the associate curator for the Guggenheim Museum, even though I’d entered it in the Mixed Media. The juror is allowed to change categories as they wish. The reception was March 7, 2020… 11 days later everything locked down and we were not allowed to reclaim our art works until September.

This was likely the very first rock piece I made. I found this rock broken in the road and took it home.

2010, 13” x 15”, I wanted to combine all sorts of techniques in odd ways using one color, thinking that using many colors would make it too confusing. I’m not sure of all the techniques I used, but they climb over/under each other and twist about. It’s very satisfying to run my fingers overthrough it… though touching any artwork is to be highly discouraged unless given express permission by the artist.

2010, aprox 24" x 21" x 11", I went through a kick of wrapping sticks and vines with cotton fabric. The piece with wrapped vines no longer exists.

The egg is hooked, the “yolk” is micro fibers, I was making a comment about the damage that we were (are) doing to the environment with all the plastics we consume and toss. This suggested that covered in unnatural materials the egg cannot survive and broke open revealing that it is also made of micro products.

2026, 69” circumference, 1475 coils, I found this large mixing bowl on the side of the road. After passing the bowl for a week I decided to pick it up. It was badly smashed, I had an auto collision place hammer it back in shape. I had tried, but my hammer just bounced off it. I proceeded to glue on all the coils I had randomly been making for quite some time. the white line of coils is a “strand of pearls” that are draped over the bowl. I wanted some kind of design on it.

2010, apron knee high?, I was invited to participate in the Jack Lenor Larsen LongHouse Planters On and Off the Ground. I had seen a stack of rusted metal shelves while out riding my horse and decided to pick them up and bend them into a planter. I used delicate flowers and plants that I knew would look better as the summer went on… the exhibit was outside for three months (or so). I was awarded an Honorable Mention. The following photo shows the piece later in the summer.