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Installation (multimedia), 2019

This show was built on the sensations, emotions, and fragmented narratives we experience in dreams, which seem analogous to me to the connections we enjoy in a state of flow.

All of the pieces in this project were 11 x 17 inches, partly to have one less thing to worry about but also because I hoped this restriction might act like the control in a scientific experiment. By keeping one variable constant it becomes easier to understand the processes behind these connections and strengthens the intentional and unintentional relationships between pieces, concepts, and dreams.

Dream remembered
Cyanotype print and tea on paper
pinned to wood panel
Dream: a paint brush stand upside down and the brush hairs are flames
Acrylic, graphite, and cellophane on poster board burned with sunlight
Crow in flight
Inkjet print
Record of the night
Clay
One beautiful bone, stardust
Inkjet print
Lichen holobiont
(Towards a Common Survival)
Ultraviolet print on wood panel
Yesterday's dream
Marker on glass
Navel-gazing
Inkjet print
Pleiades (Messier 45), bonedust
Acrylic and bone on canvas
Beast (Cervidae, distal forelimb)
Inkjet print
Geology of Memory (2003–2019)
Inkjet print
Beast (Homo sapiens, distal forelimb)
Inkjet print
Dream forgotten
Cyanotype print and ink
on paper pinned to wood panel
A million mini miracles
Cellophane fish, minuten insect pins, thread, acrylic, and thumbtacks on styrofoam
Lizard with a bright blue throat
Gyotaku print and watercolor on paper pinned to wood panel
Scratch Magic cosmogony
Scratch Magic color paper, blue mud dauber (Chalybion californicum), and insect pins on foamcore
Antelope Canyon, AZ
(from the Windows series)
Inkjet print
Just after sunset from the roof of HE
Casein and spray paint on canvas
Snake (v)
Inkjet print
Invocation
Cyanotype print, charcoal, and acrylic
on paper pinned to wood panel
Dreams within dreams,
or dreams after dreams (1/4)
Marker, ink, graphite, and
correction fluid on paper
Dreams within dreams,
or dreams after dreams (2/4)
Cyanotype and tea on paper
Dreams within dreams,
or dreams after dreams (3/4)
Charcoal on paper
Dreams within dreams,
or dreams after dreams (4/4)
Graphite on gallery wall
The whale, or, sideways,
a solitary figure mourning
at night beneath a meteor shower
Woodblock print on paper pinned to foamcore with minuten insect pins
Little creature
Ink and tea on paper pinned to wood panel
Moon, bat, sky
Inkjet print
Lizard with a golden coat
Spray paint and desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister) on poster board
pinned to wood panel
Range of the blue mud dauber
and the desert spiny lizard
Acrylic, ink, and graphite on paper
pinned to wood panel
Golden eagle
Inkjet print
Last night (detail)
Marker on glass
Record of the night (detail)
Clay
Dream: a paint brush stand upside down and the brush hairs are flames (detail)
Acrylic, graphite, and cellophane on poster board burned by the sun
Scratch Magic cosmogony
Scratch Magic color paper, insect pins, and blue mud dauber (Chalybion californicum) foamcore