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My work consists of site-determined installations and wall-based compositions.    Each installation is an immersive environment constructed as a place that encourages sensory understanding of physical space and temporal duration.  My wall-based compositions suggest a contingency in the rhythmic act of marking space and shifts that occur in our experience of time. 

In my work, I consider a viewer’s movement in space, peripheral and focal sight, and in some cases sound, to construct a personal experience of place.    This experience highlights the subjective passage from one’s immediate and un-named sensing of a given event to the process of making sense of this encounter.

Light, ambient and projected, is my primary vehicle for sensory influence within a physical construct of light activated materials. In Fugitive Horizons, ambient light cast over a planar conglomeration of translucent monofilament hovering at eye level in a space creates gentle fluctuations of sight, causing uncertainty of spatial approach for the viewer .  In another recent installation, Three Minutes From Now, digitally projected light through nine boxes embedded in the wall of a room creates shifting relationships of colors, luminance, movement, and stillness over time.

In an ongoing series of wall-based works, I work with a rhythmically sequenced array of tinted translucent resin panels and resin-embedded graphite drawings to create compositions that operate much like the discrete frames of a filmstrip that form a continuous whole; an analogy of how our mind grapples with the representation of a real-time happening as successive instants of time.   

My work uses the idea of filmic space to link the concrete and the atmospheric through a sequence of encounters.   This is how I try to make more palpable the act of recognition, recollection and anticipation driven by a desire to understand the present moment in the space between attentive perceiving and the peripheral subconscious.