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New Still Life (2011-12)
  Gouache and watercolor with color pencil on paper. 16 x 20 inches.    
         
       
 

Shelves & Things (2011-12)
  Designs for imaginary shelves for the purposes of building a modern cabinet of curiosities.    
         
       
 

Curious Nature of Objects
  To see this recent project created for the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK - go to Projects with Museums    
         
       
 

Thinking in Rome (2011)
  Thinking in Rome. QuickTime movie. Two 20-foot long ink paintings completed while at The American Academy in Rome. Images find their origin in Italian buildings, monuments, frescos, mosaics, and museums, and in collection materials at the AAR.    
         
       
 

The Inventories
  QuickTime movie (5 min.) documents the series, The Inventories, which is built on traditions of still life, vanitas and memento mori, pictures of the everyday -- the familiar and ephemeral.    
         
       
 

The Inventories
  Still images. Gouache & colored pencil on paper. Alternate versions available as archival pigment prints in accordion book format.

Miniature books available through Printed Matter, Inc.
www.printedmatter.org  
 
         
       
 

Cabinet: Raw & Cooked
  Like a fantastic menagerie or bestiary, when seen together these works create a sort of "paper museum," a special collection of natural and artificial things in which the typically distinct worlds of the animate and inanimate are now conflated, compressed and fashioned into one new whole.    
         
       
 

Episodes in a Fantastic Landscape
  All works are gouache hand-painting on archival pigment prints, 16" x 48"
2006-08  
 
         
       
 

Panoramas: Eating Wonderland
   
         
       
 

Poem Objects (2006)
  Gouache paintings on handmade paper