This website represents a selection of artwork since 1974. The documentation for the included photography, slide-projection, audio, installation and sculpture projects is distributed in five folders of related work that reflect the development of common, often overlapping, formal, personal and cultural content.
Books 2023-2018, includes three related photography projects: The Stratification of Longing 2018-19, Becoming California 2021-22 and The Visitors 2022-2023. Each series consists of large scale, highly detailed digital photographic images of the books in my library that shaped my personal and visual development.
Both our personal lives and art practices were abruptly altered when my wife was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease in 2004. Through the years I became her full time caregiver as she struggled with the hardships imposed by her illness. Her condition dramatically worsened during the last five years as we become progressively house-bound and isolated. By necessity my photography became limited to what I could accomplish within our home during the times when she didn't need my assistance. Those moments of concentration and focus in my studio produced these three projects and helped stabilize me in a difficult situation.
Excavations 2004-1990 chronicles the development of projects since the 1990's that use personal artifacts as a method for understanding my own history and its relationship to external events, expectations and social structures. This folder contains documentation of First Sight, An Encyclopedia of Childhood 2002-2004, His Bedroom 1994, The Village 1994 and Real Men-Dead Heroes 1990-1994.
Constructions 2018-1974 traces a history of projects that share differing methods of constructing a multilayered picture by combining a series of related photographs into one image. It features the photographic projects: The Road Above 2016-2018, Second Nature, Constructed Photographs of California 2006-2007 and Ohio 2008-2010 and selections from my earliest project Triple Photographs 1974-78.
Installations 1998-1990 Includes the installation the flow of stress concept 1996, sculptures Driving Restraint 1998 and Chance Wanders 1998 and the installation Garage 1990.
Sites 1978-79 consists of five photographic portfolios: San Francisco Construction Sites, Bay Area Construction Sites, Historical Vehicles, SF and Bay Area Sites, and Entropy and Memory.