The circle fascinates me, both as a symbol of self, wholeness and totality and as a power for the way the world works. Nature moves in circles. The seasons form a great circle and yet always return year after year, season after season. Small droplets form rain; circles that fall from the sky to the earth, only to be recycled through natures processes and again fall as rain from the sky. A never ending cycle, a never ending process. I believe we are like the circle.....never ending. Nature moves in circles.
Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux holy man once said: “The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.” The circle is a symbol of self, wholeness and totality, so I use antique optical eyes lenses as one of my surfaces to paint on. The interaction of the lighting on the suspended lenses cast a shadow of the tiny paintings on the wall. Depending on how the light hits the lens determines the cast shadow. If the light or the angle of the lens changes, so too does the shadow. The installations are intended to create an environment where each lens draws the viewer into the work and intimately deeper within themselves.
Dripping
Antique optical eye lenses: India Ink and Oil paint with grape vine
Fall Rain. 2021
Grape Vine, antique optical eye lenses, oil paint and wire
20” w x 36” h
Just Say Yes - 2013
Modesto Art Museum - Site specific Installation
3-D Steel Schematics, Antique optical eye lenses 5 h' x 7' w
Modesto Museum
Installation - two mobiles hanging from ceiling and two schematics with lenses pinned to wall.
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Irvine Fine Arts Center -- Site Specific Installation 2007
Golden Cup of Mneme
Acrylic on wall, antique optical eye lenses
13' h x 17' w
Acrylic on wall, antique optical eye lenses 2007
Alternate View
Golden Cup of Mneme
Acrylic on wall, antique optical eye lenses
Mneme = memory
Golden Cup of Mneme
close up
Swing 1965
Modesto Junior College Art Gallery
Site specific installation 2007
Acrylic on wall, antique optical eye lenses
Swing 1965 close up
Let it Rain - 2011
Modesto Junior College - Site specific Installation 10/2011
Plastic Schematic 3-D child - oil on antique optical eye lenses with mobile
Moxy - 2012
CSUS site specific Installation 2013
Maple wood schematic, antique optical eye lenses oil paint.
Mozy; 2012 close-up
Reflections - 2011
Modesto Junior College - Site specific Installation 10/2011
Acrylic on wall, oil on antique optical eye lenses, plastic schematic children
close up
Modesto Junior College - Site specific Installation 10/2011
Acrylic on wall, oil on antique optical eye lenses, plastic schematic children
MJC Site specific - 2012
Rain - Close -up
Rain - 2012 - 3-D Plastic Schematics, Antique optical eye lenses 5' w x 4' h
Tear 1 & 2 - Dayton Ohio - 2010
Tear 1 and Tear 2 installations Dayton Ohio - 2010 - 3-D Plastic Schematic's & Antique optical eye lenses
Tear 1 & 2 - Dayton, Ohio - 2010
Tear 1 and Tear 2 installations Dayton Ohio - 2010 - 3-D Plastic Schematic's & Antique optical eye lenses
Far away mobile- 2009
SOLD
Pink mobile - 2012
International House Davis, Ca.
Two possibilities - 2012
Site specific Installation MJC 2012
Plastic Schematics and antique optical eye lenses
Possibilities - 2010
Flow Arts Space ~ A Show of Light - Minneapolis, Minnesota 2012
24" x 24" on canvas
SOLD
