Zipline Butterfly
       
     
Zipline Butterfly
       
     
       
     
Exploding Head, acrylic on canvas, spray foam, chicken wire, string, 7 ft x 10 ft, 2021
       
     
Exploding Head (detail)
       
     
Journey Through the Digestive System
       
     
Journey Through the Digestive System (organs)
       
     
Journey Through the Digestive System (rear)
       
     
My Face Merging into My Face Merging into My Face
       
     
       
     
My Face Merging into My Face Merging into My Face
       
     
       
     
Caterpillar
       
     
Caterpillar
       
     
I Am a Monster
       
     
I Am a Monster (side view)
       
     
Run For Your Life
       
     
Run For Your Life
       
     
Foot
       
     
Foot
       
     
Legs
       
     
Legs (detail)
       
     
Legs (flailing)
       
     
Pull Me
       
     
Pull Me (angle)
       
     
Pull Me (detail)
       
     
Pull Me (interior)
       
     
Pull Me (uvula)
       
     
Pull Me (side)
       
     
Hand
       
     
Overgrown (toes)
       
     
Overgrown (doorway)
       
     
Overgrown (foot)
       
     
Overgrown (side)
       
     
What Goes Up Must Come Down
       
     
What Goes Up Must Come Down (detail)
       
     
Overgrown Proposal Sketch
       
     
Overgrown Proposal Sketch
       
     
Flailing Legs and Arms Proposal Sketch
       
     
Legs Proposal Sketch
       
     
Pull Me Proposal Sketch
       
     
Pull Me Proposal Sketch
       
     
Zipline Butterfly
       
     
Zipline Butterfly

acrylic on canvas on shaped panel, socks, steel, polyfil, LED lights (in antenna), zipline cable, 7 ft x 6 ft x 2 ft, 2022

Zipline Butterfly
       
     
Zipline Butterfly

acrylic on canvas on shaped panel, socks, steel, polyfil, LED lights (in antenna), zipline cable, 7 ft x 6 ft x 2 ft, 2022

       
     
Butterfly Zipline

Butterfly, 2022, Created at Ox-Bow School of the Arts, Saugatuck, MI

Exploding Head, acrylic on canvas, spray foam, chicken wire, string, 7 ft x 10 ft, 2021
       
     
Exploding Head, acrylic on canvas, spray foam, chicken wire, string, 7 ft x 10 ft, 2021

acrylic on canvas, spray foam, chicken wire, string, 7 ft x 10 ft, 2021

Exploding Head (detail)
       
     
Exploding Head (detail)

acrylic on canvas and mixed media, 2021

Journey Through the Digestive System
       
     
Journey Through the Digestive System

acrylic on panel and mixed media

Journey Through the Digestive System (organs)
       
     
Journey Through the Digestive System (organs)
Journey Through the Digestive System (rear)
       
     
Journey Through the Digestive System (rear)
My Face Merging into My Face Merging into My Face
       
     
My Face Merging into My Face Merging into My Face
       
     
Squeaky Toy Floor
My Face Merging into My Face Merging into My Face
       
     
My Face Merging into My Face Merging into My Face

(panoramic view) 2017, acrylic on paper with collage, cardboard, squeaky toys

This 36 ft x 8.5 ft acrylic painting is hung from the ceiling in a circle so that it completely surrounds the viewer. The floor is covered with heavy-duty cardboard, hiding over 50 squeaky toys that squeal as viewers move through the space.

       
     
My Face Merging Into My Face Merging Into My Face
Caterpillar
       
     
Caterpillar

acrylic on panel with tube socks and mixed media

Viewers are invited to squeeze the dot on each arm to activate recordings pulled from the inners of stuffed animals like Tickle-Me-Elmo.

Caterpillar
       
     
Caterpillar
I Am a Monster
       
     
I Am a Monster

acrylic on panel, faux fur, paper mache clay, wood, squeaky toys, peepholes and mixed media.

Viewers are invited to pull the lever from behind the sculpture, opening the mouth and letting out squeaky-toy squeals.  They may also look through peepholes in the monster's eyes.

I Am a Monster (side view)
       
     
I Am a Monster (side view)
Run For Your Life
       
     
Run For Your Life

acrylic and collage on unstretched canvas

Run For Your Life
       
     
Run For Your Life
Foot
       
     
Foot

acrylic on paper

Foot
       
     
Foot

acrylic on paper

Legs
       
     
Legs

fabric, faux fur, wood, mixed media

Viewers are invited to pull the rope to make legs flail.

Legs (detail)
       
     
Legs (detail)
Legs (flailing)
       
     
Legs (flailing)
Pull Me
       
     
Pull Me

2011, fabric, foam, plastic, mixed media, fog horn

Viewers are invited to enter the mouth and pull the uvula, activating a foghorn in the gallery.

Pull Me (angle)
       
     
Pull Me (angle)
Pull Me (detail)
       
     
Pull Me (detail)
Pull Me (interior)
       
     
Pull Me (interior)
Pull Me (uvula)
       
     
Pull Me (uvula)
Pull Me (side)
       
     
Pull Me (side)
Hand
       
     
Hand

fabric, foam, plastic, mixed media

Overgrown (toes)
       
     
Overgrown (toes)

fabric, foam, plastic, mixed media

Viewers follow the toes through a hallway gallery into a dark room, where the rest of the foot is dramatically lit.

Overgrown (doorway)
       
     
Overgrown (doorway)
Overgrown (foot)
       
     
Overgrown (foot)
Overgrown (side)
       
     
Overgrown (side)
What Goes Up Must Come Down
       
     
What Goes Up Must Come Down

fabric, foam, plastic, air mattress, mixed media

What Goes Up Must Come Down (detail)
       
     
What Goes Up Must Come Down (detail)
Overgrown Proposal Sketch
       
     
Overgrown Proposal Sketch

pencil, pen and watercolor on paper

Overgrown Proposal Sketch
       
     
Overgrown Proposal Sketch

charcoal on paper

Flailing Legs and Arms Proposal Sketch
       
     
Flailing Legs and Arms Proposal Sketch

pencil on paper, 11x8.5 in.

Legs Proposal Sketch
       
     
Legs Proposal Sketch

pencil on paper, 8.5x11 in.

Pull Me Proposal Sketch
       
     
Pull Me Proposal Sketch

colored pencil on paper

Pull Me Proposal Sketch
       
     
Pull Me Proposal Sketch

pencil, pen and marker on paper