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 project devoted to exploring the depiciton of an essential element of 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 it functioned perfectly. In shape, color, size and texture, it declared its purpose and reason across language and culture, and triggered an ongoing contemplation about the nature of how humanity chooses to exist in the world.
This initial group of paintings use as a jumping off point traditional landscape painting, and how our preference for land is that which contains a source of fresh water. I'm not interested in romanticizing its poetic aspects, nor the agrarian lifestyle. Rather, I am laying a groundwork for understanding my own desire to contain the memory of water clear, clean, and endless.
And now, against my better judgment, I have created THE WATER COUPE blog.
Paintings from "The Water Coupe" (click on image to enlarge in new window). Unless noted all paintings are available for purchase.
"Drinks"
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