Sculpture from Runoff

Whale and Plankton

56′ x 10′ x 3″, plastic debris and junk, 2024

Single use plastic debris represents an aggressive intervention in the food web. These are magnifications of small organisms that find their way into the stomachs of the largest filter feeders in the sea. By their nature, when hungry animals search for food, often plastic colonized by a microhabitat of bacteria and familiar scents is mistakenly identified as food.

In reconstructing planktonic forms, I’ve observed that to research a whale’s stomach today reveals the lethal coupling of plastic and internal organs. You can’t study marine animals’ anatomy without seeing plastic. Infinite varieties of filter feeding organisms like shrimp, copepods, brittle stars and crabs area lens for representing disintegrated fossil-based plastic and the toxic pathology in its wake.

Whale and plankton installation with silhouette of whale in white and body filled with plankton sculpture made of plastic

Detail view of Whale and Plankton installation

Installation view showing scale of Whale and Plankton

Extinct Birds Previously Consumed by Humans

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Extinct Birds and Bird Wall

Moa sculptures and Birdwall with gallery visitor

Moa sculptures and On Demand large-scale graphic

Great Auk

Pangolins

Two life-size Pangolins
38″ x 20″ x 18”, steel, paper, and credit cards, 2024
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.

Gold Stomach

Silver Stomach

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.

Two gas containers and one paint bucket

Looking at felted oil containers

Drill, baby, drill

Screenshot

Oil containers with vitrine

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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Aquatic Larvae line drawing

Aquatic Larvae and other work

Aquatic Larvae

Aquatic Larvae, detail

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

Quetzal, detail

Quetzal

Acid Rain Brook Trout

Cardboard, paint, 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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Acid Rain Brook Trout, installation view

Acid Rain Brook Trout