Inspired by Bernini, Cornell, Duchamp, and Klee, it also reconnects to the wood-carved sculptures I’ve done in the past. “Coil” is a 16th-century term that can mean anything from “turmoil” to “to lie in rings or spirals.” It was most famously used in Hamlet’s “To be, or not to be” speech—“When we have shuffled off this mortal coil”.

A small articulated figure attached at their groin rotates 360 degrees in one hour. The movement is very subtle, and might not be noticed by a casual viewer in real time. I like the figure’s imperceptible movement. I think it is analogous to how we age, especially as adults—how ever-so-slowly our physicality diminishes, our hair thins and whitens, our skin wrinkles and sags—changes only realized by looking at an old photo or a cellphone closeup.

13” x 13” x 13” | Wood, Brass, Mirror, Plexiglass, Motor

“I had a thought” is a wood sculpture of a rib cage with a heart made with pieces of broken red glass at its center that illuminate with lights. The piece started as a random thought on a kayak on the ocean, but as its complexities developed to its final form, it connected to things happening to my life.

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Three paper masks
Pencil and ink on archival prints

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Pencil and ink on archival prints
40” x 40”. 2021

Mirror and Pencil and ink on archival print. 8.5” x 11”. 2021
Pencil and ink on archival print and Mirror. 8.5” x 11”. 2021

Mirror and Pencil and ink on archival print. 8.5” x 11”
Pencil and ink on archival print and Mirror. 8.5” x 11”

Carved wood, plastic, mirror, acrylic paint, oil stick varnish
16” x 11”, 2021

pencil and Ink on digital print
2020

10 framed self-portraits as masks created during the first months of the coronavirus epidemic in New York City.
(video) 2020

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10 self-portraits as masks created during the first months of the coronavirus epidemic in New York City.
2020

Six photos, each 7.5” x 15”
mounted on 1” clear plexiglass

Metallic print on bamboo board,
20” x 15”