Place, Space & Time
Since I blur much distinction between my art & life, I often create works that respond directly to my environs, reflecting on the nature of the world in which I live. Here are some alternative projects, assemblages, drawings, installations and performances that encourage the viewer to engage in place, space & time in new and different ways and rethink how we relate to our world and to one another. Some of these pieces are even site-specific to their surroundings, in both formal show settings and in more subverted contexts.

Contemplation
Front cover of sketchbook poem, 2024

Kansas Portrait
Sunflower-faced portrait of a man in acrylic on wood atop found painting, 2021

Home
For Corona Maison online Covid gallery, 2020

Insects: Painted Lady Butterfly
Pencil drawing, 2018

The Gift: Peace Begins Here and Now (with You, with Me, with Us…)
Digital art with hand holding dove, skin tone to be determined (patterned as if clear), 2018

Sunflower
Painting on wood screen, 2018

ApoCalypso
Mail art postcard revisiting Greetings from the Apocalypse with gas mask picture, 2017

Plaza Lights
Holiday Kansas City scene depicted in chocolate through Bizz and Weezy contest, 2016

Today Is a Gift
Holiday bow installation in Magoun Square, Somerville, MA, 2015

Regrets
Tree installation from deconstructed chair, paper, and faux apples, made in 2008, installed outdoors in 2014

Performances for the Kansas Sky: Powdered Sugar to the Wind
Portraits of the artist engaging throughout Kansas, photographed by Laurel Luckey, 2014

Please Recycle
Photograph project inserted in litter plastic bottles found on a walk, 2013

Au Naturel
Portrait of myself in dress with faux plants, photographed in nature by Charles G. Wilbur, 2012

Icarus Washed Ashore
Used motor oil on paper depicting birds from Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2011

Water:Life
Bed frame plastic water bottle installation for Art for the Earth, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, 2011

The Mourners
Life drawing from traveling exhibit of tomb sculptures from the Court of Burgandy, 2010

Lost and Found
Photograph of rabbit skeleton with objects for A Book About Death online show, 2010

Cast Off
Litter clothesline installation for Artica, St. Louis, MO, 2009 and Art for the Earth, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, 2010

Road Kill
Documentation series photographing songbirds hit by cars, 2009

Windows: Down by the River
Mixed media found object assemblage, 2009

My Front Lawn
Daisy-chained weeds on metal stand, 2009

Wishes the Penny Project
Subverted street art featuring stickers voicing wishes on dropped pennies, 2008

City Life
Series of cellular biology influenced marker drawings on old maps, 2008

Inheritance
Broken Boehm bird in cage installation, 2008

Dutch Elm Disease
Fabric leaf installation around faux tree trunk for Lorimier Gallery, Cape Girardeau, MO, 2007

From Pasture
Metal washbasin installation with horse skull and faux flowers, 2006