The works included in this site reflect my interests over the last 30 years. While they have included projects involving electronic media, audio, performance, installations and publishing, much of my work uses traditional art materials and processes.

The Water Coupe

Currently, my efforts have been directed towards an ongoing concern with water. Begun in 2003, "The Water Coupe" is a long-term project devoted to exploring the depiction of an essential element for human survival.

Based on a museum encounter with a small Qing Dynasty porcelain, my response to this exquisite celadon container was to marvel at how perfectly it functioned. In shape, color, size and texture, it declared its purpose and reason across language, culture and time, triggering contemplation about the nature of how humanity chooses to exist in the world.

Though in many cases, these works employ the vernacular of traditional landscape painting, the intent is not to romanticize agrarian archetypes, or further any arguments of nature-versus-culture. Rather, I am interested in the sensual qualities of this substance, its various abstractions, and the role of memory in both subject and object. In many ways it is desire at the molecular level.