Sculpture from Runoff
Extinct Birds Previously Consumed by Humans
Pangolins
Two life-size Pangolins, steel, paper, and credit cards, 38″ x 20″ x 18”, 2022
The pangolin is the only mammal with scales and the most widely poached and trafficked creature on earth, the scales being valued for traditional medicine. Threatened with extinction, more than a million are said to have been illegally poached in their Asian and African habitats over the last ten years.
52 Credit Cards
It is likely that your stomach accumulates the equivalent of one credit card of microplastics per week, it might look like this after one year.
Archaic crayfish made with credit cards
Welded steel, paper, credit cards, and single use plastics, 18″ x 108″ x 7″, 2024
From an old print depicting an unverified arthropod species
Nesting Pesticides
Ever since they started applying Sulphur in the 1840s, products to kill pests have become increasingly lethal, a progression includes: Sulphur, Mercury, Lead, Pyrethrum, Arsenic, DDT, Strychnine, Dioxin, Glyphosate, Neonicotinoids. Endless ways to poison the food supply.
Ooze Sorry Now
18″ x 24″ x 32″, 1990, part of the series Sculpture to Last a Lifetime. Installation also includes Wave Of The Future, Life In a Landfill, and Percolated Debris. Click here to see more.
Felted Oil Containers
Hand felted wool, all vessels are life-size, 2009–2010
Portraits of vessels holding some of the fossil fuels the artist has consumed.
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Aquatic Larvae
Series of 6 each, welded steel and single use plastics, approximately 36″ x 18″ x 10″, 2020
Fish emerging from a yoke of plastic debris.
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Quetzal
Welded steel, paper, and credit cards, 72″ x 12″ x 9″, 2022
A nearly extinct species, the national bird of Guatemala, hunted for its plumage. A commentary on borrowing from the future at the expense of the present. Loaned by Fairfield University Art Gallery
Acid Rain Brook Trout
Cardboard, pain, 1981
Series of 7 vignettes of Brook Trout as their breeding cycle is disrupted by Acid Rain, installation includes several multiples of Trout with chemical contamination from factory spills, spinal birth defect and fish that may appear normal but can will not breed.
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