Archives

trance-forming (grass dog) wild grasses (no binders). 24” x 32” x 16” dimensions variable   1995 1996

bound rubber and plastic sheathing, inner tubes, wire.   4’ x 30” x 30”     1998 I sometimes source metal from wholesale salvage companies. wandering through enormous gritty warehouses, I once came upon an old guy feeding various kinds of sheathed wire and cable through a machine that stripped the rubber and plastic casings off, so the [...]

continental drift (dog) driftwood (no binders). 24” x 36” x 16” dimensions variable   1998

landscape with horse salvaged metal, wood, leather, plastic, rubber & bone gathered from dumps, alleys, riverbanks tundra and forests all over the Yukon.   life sized   2006 materials represent many aspects of human intervention on the northern landscape: telegraph wire, hunting & trapping gear, mining, construction & agricultural equipment; elements that persist on the land long [...]

one month of garbage a month’s worth of my plastic garbage; packing tape. 32” x 32” 12”   2007 made partly in horror at the tangible amount of plastic i regularly accumulate, and partly in an attempt to transform such trash into some kind of beauty.

search engine found and salvaged metal and wire. 8’ x 10’ x 3’    1998 at the time i felt like I was making work that I sent out into the world as a means of comprehending that world, somewhat akin to my understanding of a search engine. a kind of benign Trojan horse. private collection

stumbling block bedsheets, kitchen twine, antlers, wire armature. 36” x 36” x 16”   2004 Built after wandering around in the ROM’s taxidermied animals section & contemplating the impossibly thin legs of the antelopes. also inspired by Egyptian animal mummies, and by the satisfying feel of obsessive wrapping / cocooning / bundling.

unravelling: wrapped textile series bedsheets & cotton, kitchen twine, wire armatures. dimensions vary. 2000 – 2006 Inspired by Egyptian animal mummies, and by the satisfying feel of obsessive wrapping / cocooning / bundling.

Urban Sprawl used copper wire 5’ x 3’ x 12   2005 A study of animal form & anatomy

copper dog salvaged copper & steel wire   48” x 20” x 16” poseable 1991