+ Recent Work    

 AKA Single channel video, 4.05 min.  2012

"IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY YOU CAN SEE THE BALD EAGLE SIT ON THE PINE..."

AKA is based on a first-hand account of a fishing trip to Spirit Lake, Alaska, also known to the locals as Elephant Lake.  Spirit Lake is 3,980 miles from Toledo.  I have never been there.  The text was inspired by a very matter-of-fact account of a rather uneventful fishing trip on a mundane personal website. Distance is largely what this piece is about, distance from spirit and distance from elephant (for me a metaphor for the world)... more

Packing Up  Two-channel video installation,  7.35 min. 2012

Cancer is no joke.  Neither is confronting one’s own mortality.  The seriousness of these two frightening realities however, doesn’t prevent them from being ironic:  As we sicken and age we become increasingly preoccupied with health.  The closer we approach death the more reflective and conscious we become of life...  more  

Pineal Eye  Video Installation, cell phone, optics, electronics, 9.55 min.  2011 

Pineal Eye tells the story of a boy’s visit to the optometrist.  The treatment for his “lazy eye” has unintended side effects and the boy loses his metaphysical and perceptual equilibrium, introducing him to a world marked by otherness and haunted by absence... more

 Subimago  Video installation, 1.30 min. video loop, electronics, masks, wood

"Tallula made these masks for me... I don't think this is what she had in mind..."  The subimago is a unique morphological stage in the life of a mayfly.  No longer a nymph and as yet a functional adult, the subimago is particularly vulnerable...  more

The Boggle Project Ongoing series, digital imaging on canvas, 36x24", 2011-

The Boggle series is a series of simple experiments designed to test my skill at postnostication, the rather common but none-the-less uncanny ability to foretell the past...  more  

Hobson's Choice  Ongoing series digital imaging on canvas, 36x28", 2011- 

Questions of identity and identification must always be answered in the plural, and choices, when we make them, are simply provisional, pragmatic and expedient. Can a multiple choice test function like poetry and point toward the richness and ambiguity of existence?..  more

Telemetry  Video installation,  63x36x92", 3.22min video loop, electronics

I documented a debate with my daughter: Is intelligence or God immanent in a croquet ball?  This exchange is played for a ball that has been wired with an embedded surveillance microphone.  The telemetry received from within the ball is amplified and translated into a LED array, a visual “ball language” display of what it is “sensing”...  more 

Second Coming   Audio installation, 7 min. audio loop, mixed media, 168x48x48”, 2009

The rumbling sound of a rolling ball emanates from the tube, seeming to repeatedly approach only to  recede down another conduit.  This piece explores inference and anticipation... more  

Point of Control audio installation, dimensions variable, stools, stilts, electronic duration 3.22

Point of Control is an interactive audio installation about choice.  The audio track describes a journey back into the swamps of the “alligator brain” to the “wisps of jelly” that make our decisions well before we have made a conscious choice...more 

Lay Bare video installation,  69x24x18"  27 min. loop  2009

...The sense of time reversal is difficult to maintain as one continues to watch.  The piece uses the scale dependence of time perception to explore epistemology and the culture of false disclosure in both science and entertainment... more  

 Monster Feet  video installation,  four 5" monitors, 66x84”  2009

What little things we do to make ourselves feel a little bigger...more

Pell Mell  Video installation, 3 min. video loop on 7” monitor, 2009

Pell Mell explores the effects of temporal compression and distention on memory, attention and perception under pressure of “small screen, low-fi" culture...  more 

Combover  Audio installation, 90x96x66”, oil on panel, wire recorder, a mile of stainless steel wire, electronics

Combover is named for a kind of practiced yet naive denial once commonly exhibited by the prematurely balding.  In this piece I use this as a metaphor for the ways in which the weight of memory distorts perception, which in turn biases and alters memory... more