Questionable Nudes

My Solo show at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, 2005 

 (Nude) Fats & meat

 Neoclassical Nude wax, metal & lights

Prostrating Playdough & metal

Self-Portrait in Bread bread & butter

Neoclassical Nude (time elapsed)

Chaos Series

Everything has order, precise lines, laws, laws, order and purpose. Order is what allows our world to exist, it established and maintains equilibriums. But it is chaos that drives and changes our world; evolution requires chaos to move forward. My Chaos series is a celebration, expression, and inquiry into chaos. It also explores quantum mechanics theory (whereby the act of watching changed the movement of electrons) and how inanimate objects have a spiritual or self-knowledge side to them and how our relationships, as people, with these inanimate objects affects them. My pieces seek to create chaos out of order, disequilibrium, dynamism, uncertainties, joy, explosion and change. 

    Tangled                             A Morel or Something

     2008                                           2008

My piece Tangled, from my 

Black wool, Rusty Metal Series was the inspiration for my Chaos Series. It

 started with two works on the Fairy Tale Warp, Faerie & A Morel or Something. While making A Morel or Something, I created and worked out my theories on chaos. I also established some guides which most of the following works would follow: technical chaos, having very loose weft concurrently very tight weft; and having my chaos involve colour/ a sense of joy.

Woman with two vices

Woman with Two Vices

Tube Warp

2011

wool, metal, plastic, vice grips, chain, tinfoil 

Modified to Fit

This piece has had one of the most interesting lives of my work.  It was created with hand thrown cylinders. When it was created, it was an abstracted full human, roughly life-sized when green.  In order to bisque the work, the head and some of the shoulders had to be chopped off. My working title then was "Person Kneeling Modified to fit Kiln".  I quite liked the arbitrariness of it.  It was then glazed, mostly with left over gunk from the sink trap in the glazing room.  It was then fired in the wood kiln. During the firing, it became fused the the old gnarled kiln shelf it was sitting on.  The shelf looks great with it. Since completion, it has been mailed across the country where it lost a knee cap, one foot and some of its shoulders torso area.  It seems to be a person with  a self-destruct button.

Embrace

The piece is about watching the world. It is about seeing evil, ugly things. It is also about entering into these bad things emotionally, but also protecting and loving yourself. The world is a sad place for those who look.