Still Life
Recycled plastic, 3'H x 20'L x 13'W
Two North American landmasses extending up through Canada and Greenland and down through Central America, float-- mirroring each other and being mirrored, in a pond. A sunken chair sits at the floating “table” of one In these mirror landscapes, populated by McMansions, trailer parks, and shot-gun houses. An offshore oil rig and a dredging crane loom over the landscape. In the other landmass,...
Fastforwardfossil; Part 2, 2009
#2 harvested plastic, 30'L x 7'H x 14'W
This installation is a continuation of a multi-year series which explores the dynamics of resource harvesting and consumption. This part of the series focuses on oil and water. Rising at 5:30 AM, I harvest #2 plastic bottles from the recycling bags put out for collection on the streets of Brooklyn. For one hour, one day at a time, I immerse myself in the tidal wave of...
Fastforwardfossil; Part 1, 2009
#2 harvested plastic, 18' L x 4'H x 8'W
The sculptural landscape, constructed out of translucent, plastic milk and water bottles, imagines a ghostly and chaotic future. Bottles that contained pure milk and water that once quenched our thirst now end up contaminating and destroying our landscape. FASTFORWARDFOSSIL Part 1 combines views of the Niger Delta and the Port Harcourt oil refinery in Nigeria with the...
Phantom Limb, 2007
#2 harvested plastic, 14'L x 7'H x 8'W
“It is not a man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least to wash his hands of it, and if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at...
Revenant, 2007
#2 harvested plastic, 18'L x 7'H x 3'W
Revenant was created for a two person exhibition with Zero Higashida, for the Bank of Japan in Hiroshima, one of the few buildings to survive the atomic blast. The 18 foot bridge has a dredging crane on one end, which is attached by looping chains to a McMansion on the other end. A slum colony with a satellite dish clings to the underside of the McMansion. The bridge structure is based...
Hunter-Gatherer, 2007
#2 harvested plastic, 21'L x 18'W x 24"H
This installation is a 21' landscape made from plastic milk and water cartons scavenged from the streets of Brooklyn and the Town Recycling Center of Peterborough, NH. The salvaged material is reconfigured into a micro-world of satellite towers, abandoned oil rigs, highways and other structures.
Small armed puppet figures guard the infrastructure and the resources throughout...