Please click on the links to jump to the respective works:
1. Cherimoya
2. Goblets
3. Water Trilogy
4. Dark Sky
5. Desert Finds
Desert Finds
“Spectral Fantasy,
Lying in the sand….watching,
Without eyes, waiting”
Cholla skeleton with embedded turned maple eyes colored with aniline dyes and India Ink. Walnut base.
6″ x 4″ x 4″
Dark Sky, 2019/21
Hunter Moon explores the stress we put upon ourselves when we hunt for sleep in increasingly shorter nights. “I, as Virgo mediate the space between melatonin and natural night sky regulation of my circadian rhythms…“
Harvest Moon, is a purely aesthetic piece where I became obsessed with representing the dark sky by the female representation of Virgo. “I as Virgo, cradle the moon as it exerts its influence on the oceans’ currents”
Corvid Moon, inspired by the Pacific North West Indigenous creation beliefs that have Raven bringing the moon, sun and stars to mankind. “I, as Virgo ride the back of Raven in my sleep”
Strawberry Moon, is the given name for the full moon that appears around the time of the summer solstice. “I as Virgo, wakeful at the solstice, relish the bounty of Mother Earth”
Wolf Moon, a friend introduced me to the term for twilight in French “entre le chien et le loup” – between the dog and the wolf. While there are hardly any wolves here in the desert of Southern Arizona, the Coyotes are alive and well. Their calls at night herald an alternate reality right outside my window. “I as Virgo hunger and howl entre le chien et le loup”.
Thunder Moon, was inspired by the lack of the usual monsoon season here in southern Arizona in 2020. In the midst of the pandemic, even mother nature “stayed at home” meaningful rains never came. “I as Virgo, yearn to dance to the rhythm of your song”
Water Trilogy, 2019
Intelligence 
Consequences 
Faith
My work acknowledges that patterns of human behavior are hard to change. Water use strategies that worked for indigenous peoples hundreds and even thousands of years ago have not scaled well. Our myopic focus on extraction, redirection, use and waste denies the science that increasingly identifies our oceans and rivers as having deep and critical affinities to the earth and sky.
The first piece in my Trilogy, “Intelligence”, challenges us to think about past actions in the context of what we know today. Borrowing from Piaget, “Intelligence is not what we know but what we do when we don’t know” . I throw the gauntlet down in the face of decision makers who do not acknowledge the emerging scientific knowledge regarding the life cycle of a molecule of water.
The second piece “Consequences”, highlights issues related to environmental resilience. Extraction and use models going back 2000 years have resulted in landscapes that cannot recover in multiple human life cycles. We are creating land-based and ocean-based wastelands on a scale that affect climate patterns.
The third piece “Faith”, explores the drivers behind our destructive behavior. Our blind faith in an economic construct that continues to reinforce exploitation of natural resources to support “growth”. To paraphrase Kate Rowarth, its as if we believe fossil fuel driven GDP is a perpetual motion machine. Science debunked this concept over a century ago, but we as a society seem to have faith that resource extraction is different. It is the holy grail of the economic perpetual motion machine.
Intelligence: Turned, carved Maple with walnut burl base. Embellishment: Aniline dye h:15″, l 13″ US$1500.00
Consequences: Turned and carved ambrosia maple . Embellishments: aniline dye, india ink. h:27″, d:22″ US$3500.00
Faith: turned and carved maple with sycamore pedestal. Embellishments: Pyrography, india inks and aniline dye. h:22″, l:15″ US$3500.00
Goblets
The birth of LOMO2017.com: The path of the Cherimoya
Turned, Carved & guilded basswood 
