Top: - Compost Project / Sponsored by the Manchester Craftsmans Guild, Pittsburg, PA and the ALTER Project - Research Center for Sustainable Systems, Harmony Homestead, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA / 1996.

Bottom: Orchard of the Sun, study for a 40 ft x 8 ft. wall behind the gallery's glass facade, collage, pencil, watercolor on diazo blue prints, 36 in. x 75 in., TZART Gallery, New York, NY / circa 1999.


Top: Orchards of the Sun, site study for an extended version of
Pitzer Project:  a Prototype System for the Production and Distribution of Ancient Sunlight / 1996.

Bottom: Orchard of the Sun V, conceptual proposal, b&w photograph, ink, acrylic paint, 40in. x 30in., “fire protection and re-fruiting with coal of the dead portion of a tree, coal, refractory/kiln cement, steel, Central Valley, CA, 1989. Collection: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

Top: Study: Orchards of the Sun (Nine Streetlights), site study for an extended version of
Pitzer Project:  a Prototype System for the Production and Distribution of Ancient Sunlight / 1996.

Bottom: Vanishing Ship: The Orchard of Tears, detail, 32.5 in. x 42 in., pencil, acrylic on paper, gray glass ship containing branches re-fruited with coal / Proposal for the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME / 1990.

Top: Oculus: Dead Sea/Oil Field,
video projection on the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Fl for the opening of The Rising Sea, Images and Constructions from South Florida and Other Selected Works / 1998 / https://vimeo.com/150135808

Bottom: Deluge (Radiant Sleep/Helium Ash), single channel video, color, sound, 20:00 / 1994.  A work using poetics and scientific information in an attempt to disengage positivist concepts of consciousness, promoting an organic alternative / https://vimeo.com/139406135
 

 

Ancient Sunlight / Metabolism II






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