Organic Expeditions are explorations into the abstraction of “live” animal/figurative forms that at times have almost completely evolved into rock forms in their slow movement and solitude. Over the many years this study is still occurring, the uniting theme is the desire to represent the great stillness caused by the hectic environment that constantly washes over and through us. These forms are a collection of those residual particles deposited on us, crystallizing the emotion shown by the work at that collective time it was finished. The end result seems to culminate in an organic form with anthropomorphic characteristics, frozen or transfixed in a particular ritual or ceaseless moment of contemplation.

01-02  Addlepated /// 2007 /// 13″ x 10″ x 12″  /// poultry wire, burlap, hydrocal, paint
03  Relationship Study: Solidarity /// 2007 /// 15″ x 13″ x 16″ each /// poultry wire, burlap, hydrocal, paint
04-05  Plum That Walked Away a Thumb /// 2004 /// 9″ x 6″ x 6″ /// Astrobright pulp, tape, bubble wrap, green plastic bottle
06  Stone Saves Snail’s Spot /// 2003 /// 12″ x 14″ x 20″ /// poultry wire, hydrocal, paint
07  Fungus Grows on the Walking Rock /// 2003 /// 36″ x 28″ x 48″ /// poultry wire, burlap, hydrocal, paint, flocking
08  Too Dirty to Tell (An Ambiguous Breed) /// 2002 /// 24″ x 24″ x 48″ /// poultry wire, burlap, hydrocal, paint, flocking
09  The Weight of Thoughts /// 1995 /// 4″ x 6″ x 3″ /// wire, colored wax
10  A Thought Forming /// 1995 /// 8″ x 8″ x 10″ /// poultry wire, burlap, plastic, wax
11  Untitled /// 1995 /// 6″ x 5″ x 14″ /// foam, tape, colored wax
12  Volume of Body /// 1994 /// 20″ x 24″ x 48″ /// poultry wire, plaster, burlap, paint, colored pencil
13  Relationships (Forming Rules) /// 1994 /// 24″ x 36″ x 72″ /// poultry wire, plaster, burlap, colored pencil
14  The Viewing /// 1994 /// 38″ x 24″ x 48″ /// poultry wire, plaster, burlap, paint, colored pencil
15  Untitled /// 1994 /// 9″ x 2″ x 3″ /// bronze, pigment
16  The Bashful Gargoyle /// 1993 /// dimensions undocumented /// stone, car paint, marker