Other times, I may challenge myself to incorporate vile and overlooked dregs such as bath-drain hair. My work makes reference to the land, human anatomy, marine and microbiology. The view may be from within the body or miles above the land. I may focus on matter undetected by the naked eye. Yet, content is empty without atmosphere, mood.
Different media are responsible for different voices.
Tone is set through color, from oil paint or printing ink, which provides the blood and binder of my work. With this I can transform a pistachio into a crater on the moon, string and hair into intestinal contents, glue into mold. I challenge the viewer to let my careful scrutiny tweak their own senses, so that they may reconsider these objects in our environment upon which their gaze falls. Rothschild Gallery, Cambridge, MA 1999 Survey of Local Contemporary Art , Somerville Museum, MA 1999 Somerville Open Studios, First Annual. Somerville, MA 1999 People s Art Show , Brickbottom Gallery.