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2012    

Then wanting came to mean touching without (the land) was normal

 

acrylic, Buckthorn root, Eurocast, fern, grass, moss, mylar, paper, pencil, photo transfer, sage, sedum, sponge,

26 x 24 x 6

(Framed)

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

     
2011    

Unnatural nature #1

 

Buckthorn root, Eurocast, found foam, lichen, moss, sedum, wood
8 x 6 x 4

 

 

 

 


 
     
     

If I was the river I was only projecting

 

acrylic, mylar, paper, pencil, satin ribbon

24 x 30 x 8 (Framed)

 

 

 


 
     

It took something local to support the fiction

 

acrylic, cigarette butt, corn, found foam, grass, hosta, lead, moss, mylar, paper, sedum, sponge, wax, wood

 


 


 
     

I'm in the better part of your worn down making

 

acrylic, paper, fern, sedum, baby's breath, found foam, plastic bags, hosta, moss, sage, cardboard, sponge, pine cone,mylar, horse hair, waxed thread

29 x 23 x 7

 


 


 
     

what I found at the falls was caution's release on the land

 

acrylic, dyed hair, euro cast, fern, found foam, paper, photo transfer, pine cone, plastic bag, sedum, sponge, waxed thread, wire, wood

29 x 23 x 7


 

 
     

I built bridges over something selling desire’s terrain

 

acrylic, acrylic sheet,canvas, cigarette filters, euro cast, fern, found foam, paper, pencil, sedum, sponge, wood

22 x 24 x 11

 

 
     

Folding settles deeper than accessible to the face of something waiting

 

acrylic, buckthorn root, cigarette filters, fern, found foam, mushroom, mylar, paper, pencil, pine cone, sedum, sponge

29 x 23 x 8

 


 

 
     

I imagined soft decay hiding in the scenic turning

 

acrylic, balsa wood, euro cast, fern, found foam, geranium, lichen, moss, paper, pine cone, pine needle, plastic bag, sponge, seedum, waxed tape, winter wheat, wire

29 x 23 x 8

 

 
     

The rain brings something between green and passing

 

acrylic, fern, found foam, geranium, pencil, pine cone, pine needle, plastic bag, tragopogon dubius

29 x 23 x 7


 

 

 
     
     

What bounded my routine unknowingly fell clear over the foundation

 

acrylic, canvas, found foam, Fungi, leaves, lichen, moss, mylar, paper, pencil, petg, sedum, waxed thread, wood
23 x 29 x 6

 


 

 
     

Untitled

 

acrylic, pencil, found foam, lichen, moss, mylar, photo transfer, pine cone, pine needles, sedum, wire
29 x 23 x 6

 

 
     

Surrounding my hands in the stain of warmth sinking

 

acrylic, pencil, found foam, lichen, lily seed, moss, Mylar, photo transfer, pine, plasti, sage, sedum, sponge, wood, wire
29 x 23 x 8

 

 
     

Patterns of my own acceptance became making

 

acrylic, pencil, fern, found foam, lichen, moss, photo transfer, pine cone, plastic bag, sage, wire
29 x 23 x 6

 


 
     

My bare foot adds the soft bridge to sky's repeating

 

acrylic, canvas, euro cast, fruticose, moss, mylar, pencil, paper, sedum, sponge, vellum
29 x 23 x 6

 

 
     

what clouded my receiving hand is the way I own sensation

 

Acrylic, Baby's Breath, found foam, Mylar, pencil, Pine Needle, Sedum, sponge, vellum.

23 x 29 x 7

 

 
     

What softened clipper's making left the plains barren and white

 

acrylic,fern, foam, found foam, pencil, paper, Photo transfer, pine needles, Salt, sedum, sponge, sumac, wheat, wood

29 x 23 x 5

 

 
     

Untitled (bon iver - calgary single cover art)

acrylic, geranium, mylar, paper, pencil

29 x 23 x 3

 

 
     

Untitled (bon Iver, bon iver cover art)

acrylic, buckthorn root, dirt, found foam, geranium, moss, mylar, paper, pencil, photo transfer, pine cone, sedum, snow, sponge

35 x 35 x 6

 

 

 

View process video and images

from Bon Iver cover making

 
     

warmth gave rise to our falling

 

acrylic, baby's breath, eurocast, fern, hair, hosta, moss, paper, sedum, sagebrush, wood

24 x 24 x 13

 

 
     

Something slow and grown white with ease

 

acrylic, canvas, Eurocast, fern, found foam, Blackberry lily seed, moss, mylar, PETG, pen, pencil, Sedum, wood

23 x 23 x 13

 

 
     
2010    
     

Bent around the making of land's new use

 

acrylic, found foam, moss, pen, pencil, Sedum, wood

29 x 23 x 9

 


 

 
     
     

With your water falling over our new natural

 

acrylic, found foam, eurocast, moss, mylar, paper, pencil, pen, PETG, plastic bag, Sage, Sedum, sponge, wood
26 x 24 x 10

 


 

 

 
     
     

Normalizing demand's push

 

Acrylic, biodegradable film, canvas, Cedar, Dame’s Rocket, Eucalyptus, Eurocast, fern, found foam, moss, paper, pencil, PETG, photo transfer, Sage, Sedum, sponge, wood

24 x 24 x 13

 


 

 

 

 

 
     
     

Everything falling through and a window view

 

acrylic, Cedar, eurocast, found foam, Moss, paper, PETG, Sedum, sponge, wood

24 x 24 x 13

 


 

 
     
     

Pushed into deeper holding

 

acrylic, eurocast, horse hair, moss, paper, pencil, pine needles, sedum, sponge, tape
23 x 21 x 8

 


 

 
     
     

Holding Even What Was Absent in Stillness and Topography's Remainder

 

acrylic, moss, paper, pencil, resin, sedum, sponge, wood

36 x 45 x 16

 

 
     

Capture #14

 

Acrylic, cedar, found foam, moss, paint can, sedum, sponge, waxed tape, wood

13 x 8 x 8

 

 
     

Torn from the making of knowing’s vista

 

acrylic, pencil, sponge, moss, lead, wood, sedum, grass, wax.

20 x 15 x 9 (Framed)

 

 
     

as I understood treetops to be bottom's falling out

 

acrylic, foam, found foam, pencil, paper, moss, Photo transfer, sedum, sponge, wood.

35 x 29 x 9 (Framed)

 


 
     

Because abundance emerged beneath the messy promise

 

acrylic, found foam, pencil, paper, moss, Photo transfer, pine cone, sedum, sponge, wood.

35 x 29 x 5 (Framed)

 

 
     

Spreading a thin valley through time lines and till lines

 

Acrylic, fern, found foam, paper, Pencil, photo transfer, sponge, wood, woodruff.

29 x 20.5 x 5 (Framed)

 

 
     

What eroded under the grid and became something more than sediment

Acetate Records, acrylic, cassette tapes, compact discs, found foam, goldenrod, paper, photo transfer, pencil, moss, sponge, sedum

29 x 23 x 4 (Framed)

 

 
     
2009    
     

I was only the land because I liked the predictable stillness

 

acrylic, paper, pencil, resin, waxed thread

72 x 48 x 30

 

 
     

Capture #12

 

acrylic, cedar tree, lichen, paint can, polyurethane foam, sponge, stone, wood

variable


 
     

tied to the predictable falling of view's measure

 

Acrylic, found foam, Moss, palm, paper, pencil, photo transfer, satin ribbon, sponge, sumac, wood

23 x 29 x 4 (Framed)

 

 
     

I flattened whatever pushing made the valley tremble

 

Acrylic, buckthorn root, cigrette butts, found foam, goldenrod, grass, lichen, Moss, mushroom, mylar, netting, paper, pencil, photo transfer, pine needle, polyurethane foam, sponge, sumac, wood

29 x 23 x 3 (Framed)

 

 

 

 
     

Following became my pooled stretch of karst

 

acrylic, cedar, found foam, mylar, palm, paper, pencil, pine cone, moss, sedum, sponge, woodruf

23 x 14.5 x 5 (Framed)

 

 

 
     

Concerning what fiction dissolves in your top branches

 

Acrylic, grass, paper, paint, moss, sedum, sponge

14.5 x 23 x 5 (Framed)

 

 
     

Inside only became falling by the way rivers delivered places

 

acrylic, cedar, cigarette filter, paper, pencil, polyurethane foam, moss, sedum, sponge

14.5 x 23 x 5 (Framed)

 

 
     

Capture #9

 

Acrylic, buckthorn root, cedar needles, foam, grass, paint can, sedum, sponge

variable

 

 
     
     
     
     

Capture #11

 

acrylic, eurocast, foam, grass, lichen,moss, paint can, sedum, sponge, stone and soil from Minnesota river valley.

variable

 

 
     
     
     
     

Allowed to layer In the absence of lifting

 

acrylic, paper, pencil, photo transfer

23 x 14.5 x 4 (Framed)

 

 
     

Produced within the layers of viewing’s making

 

Acrylic, Buckthorn root, Cedar, found foam, insulation foam, Moss, palm, paper, pencil, photo transfer, satin ribbon, Sedum, sponge

23 x 29 x 4 (Framed)

 


 
     

Silhouette eroded the name from boundary’s placeholder

 

Acrylic, Elderberry, found foam, Moss, paper, pencil, photo transfer, satin ribbon, Sedum

23 x 29 x 4 (Framed)

 

 
     

Looming

 

Acrylic, Cedar, found foam, leaves, Moss, pencil, photo transfer, pine needles, polyurethane foam, Sedum, sponge

23 x 29 x 7 (Framed)

 

 
     

the ease in which absence advanced

 

Acrylic, buckthorn, cedar, fiberglass mesh tape, foam, grass, moss, paper, pencil, photo transfer, sedum, sponge

23 x 29 x 6 (Framed)

 

 

 
     

Necessity bore the contour of our language

 

acrylic, moss, paper, pencil, photo transfer, sponge

29 x 35 x 3 (Framed)

 


 
     

Capture #4

Acrylic paint, grass, paper, paint can, pencil, pine needles, juniper, lichen, moss, sedum, sponge
12 x 13 x 16



 
     

Capture #1

Acrylic paint, paper, paint can, pencil, pine needles, moss, Sedum, sponge, stone
11 x 13 x 16



 

 
     

Held on history's material desire


acrylic, cigarettes, foam, milkweed, paper, pencil, plastic, styrofoam
18 x 21 x 10

 

 

 

 
   

 

Scoring a chorus in the crests that could not be owned


acrylic, bubble wrap, foam, milkweed, pencil, pine cone, plastic, resin, satin ribbon, styrofoam, wax, wood
30 x 25 x 8 (Framed)




video Documentation

 
   

 

The harrow held stillness on the crest

 

acrylic, fabric, foam, paper, pencil, photo transfer, wood

26 x 30 x 11 (Framed)

 

 
     

Walking gave unraveling a plane to spill

 

acrylic, foam, organic matter, paper, pencil, photo transfer, plastic, satin ribbon, wood

21.5 x 23.5 x 10 (Framed)

 

 

 

 

 
     
2008    
     

Struggling swept canyon's focus toward tangents

 

acrylic, pencil, pen, bubble wrap, foam, waxed thread, leaves, photo transfer, on paper
30 x 26 x 8 (Framed)

 

 

 

 
     

As if muting the land was part of knowing

 

acrylic, moss, paper, pencil, plastic, wood

26 x 19 x 9 (Framed)

 

 
     

With what arrived as folds and later left meaning

 

acrylic, bubble wrap, foam, paper, pencil, wood

24 x 30 x 9 (Framed)

 

 

 
     

In what mist had bloomed

 

acrylic, leaves, mylar, paper, paper wasp hive, pencil, photo transfer, waxed thread

24 x 30 x 9 (Framed)

 

 
     

Your boundaries are the calm I couldn’t own

 

acrylic, paper, pencil, photo transfer, wood,

24 x 30 x 6 (Framed)

 

 

 
     

 

 
     

Tears


Torn from larger landscape paintings and sealed airtight in handmade domes.

Click here to view tears

 

     

Moving over the folds of what was more warm than hidden

 

acrylic, paper, pencil

12 x 14 x 6

 

 
     

Bent back over the dome, a measure of involuntary stains leaving

 

acrylic, paper, pencil, resin

26 x 18 x 10