Cuyahoga 2024, consists of eight sets of photographic scrolls. Each set includes five related panoramic images (10.5" × 26.5") printed with archival pigment ink on 17" × 40" rag paper. The photographs document the surface details of a riverbank along the Cuyahoga River, forming a sequential map-like record of a specific site. The project draws from my interest in the precision of geological and aerial photography, as well as the restrained, reductionist landscapes found in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scroll paintings. These varied influences converge in an approach underscored by close observation and the translation of landscape into a measured visual system.
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.
When I was sixteen my father taught me to drive on a road named the Valley Parkway in the Rocky River Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks. Two years later we returned to the Valley Parkway for a drive in my first Volkswagen and, sitting in the passenger seat, he enjoyed the experience of staring upwards at the passing trees and sky framed by the VW's large open sunroof. Decades later these emotional memories became the foundation for The Road Above
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 2004-2002, His Bedroom 1994, The Village 1994 and Real Men-Dead Heroes 1994-1990.
Constructions 2010-1974 traces a history of projects that share similar ideas and methods of constructing a multilayered picture by combining a series of related photographs into one image. It features the photographic projects: Second Nature, Constructed Landscapes of Ohio 2010-2008, Second Nature, Constructed Landscapes of California 2007-2006 and selections from my earliest project Triple Photographs 1978-74.
Installations 1998-1990 Includes the 1996 installation the flow of stress concept, the 1998 sculptures Driving Restraint and Chance Wanders and Garage, the 1990 multi-media installation with Lewis DeSoto.
Star Maps for Beginners 2025-26
While cleaning my studio, I came across a tangled set of aging string lights stored in a translucent storage container. On impulse, I placed the twisted and coiled string lights onto the easel that I had constructed for panoramic photographs. When the string of lights was plugged in, only a few bulbs illuminated. The resulting images suggested multilayered associations such as vintage scientific molecular models or stars in the night sky. The uneven distribution of light due to the failed bulbs introduced an emotional register that resisted direct description
Sites 1978-78 consists of five photographic portfolios: San Francisco Construction Sites, Bay Area Construction Sites, Historical Vehicles, SF and Bay Area Sites, and Entropy and Memory.