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I am a media artist and a very hands-on maker.  My formative training was rooted in drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, music and movement.  I am particularly interested in how the messy, organic, tactile, unpredictable, physical world meets up with the expansive possibilities of digital technologies.  With a focus on video projection environments for installation, live performance and photography, I have been intent on pulling the moving image out of the computer screen and off the cinematic big screen and have it  take on spatial and dimensional form.

 

​THREADING, Folly Bowl, Altadena, CA.  (hand-sewn scrim)THREADING, Folly Bowl, Altadena, CA.  (hand-sewn scrim)THREADING, Folly Bowl, Altadena, CA.  (hand-sewn scrim)FURNACE, Automata, LA, CA, (artist residency and culminating 2-story installation/performance)FURNACE, Automata, LA, CA (artist residency and culminating 2-story installation/performance)SPAN, collaboration w/Pamela Z,  Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA  (hand-constructed projection scrim)SPAN, collaboration w/Pamela Z,  Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA  (hand-constructed projection scrim)SPAN, collaboration w/Pamela Z,  Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA  (hand-constructed projection scrims)SPAN, collaboration w/Pamela Z,  Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA  (hand-constructed projection scrims)SPAN, collaboration w/Pamela Z,  Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CATHE SINGING HEAD, New Original Works (NOW) Festival, REDCAT, LA,. CA  (hand-sewn projection scrim)<>

 

 

I experiment with a vast array of materials with different optical characteristics of translucency, luminosity, reflection, shadow-throwing texture and bleed. The surfaces are articulated with hand sewing, painting, and collage, resulting in spacious layered sculptural floating drawings that one can inhabit.  Some have referred to my installations as “3D without the glasses.”

 

 

​​BACKYARD DRAWING SERIES, White Ash TreeBACKYARD DRAWING SERIES, White Ash Tree (detail)BACKYARD DRAWING SERIES, Joshua TreeBACKYARD DRAWING SERIES, Persimmon TreeJoshua Treenial 2017, "Dialogical" live video projections onto the rock scapes in Joshua Tree, CAFOREST'S EDGE, projections onto the forest in Granavollen, NorwayFOREST'S EDGE, projections onto the forest in Granavollen, NorwayMICRO SCREEN, rear projection onto micro scrims made of organic matterMICRO SCREEN, rear projection onto micro scrims made of organic matter<>  In 2016-17, I turned directly to nature and landscape as projection surfaces and environments, whether it be the backyards of friends, the rock scapes of the Joshua Tree desert or the Norwegian forest.  Working within Descanso Gardens will dovetail beautifully with this body of work.  "Shine a Light" speaks to my passionate interest in light as a medium and also pertains to the insight garnered through the participatory input of the Descanso community.  It has been my experience that when you direct a beam of focused attention upon something incredible details emerge and come to life---a collective such beam, all the more so.  It is with a great sense of potential that I embrace the process of where this project will lead me.