work > sculpture (2020-current)

SANCTUARY
installed at Elijah Wheat Showroom, Newburgh NY, 2025
charred cedar, Saunders Waterford paper, pigments, pencil
144 x 84 x 92 inches

This is the fourth iteration of SANCTUARY. With each one, the installation changes not only responding to the limitations and possibilities of the site but also evolving in formal ways. The configurations of the cedar saplings and their shadow play change. Their movement is incidental generated by wind or touch. In past iterations, the drawing has been done directly on the wall. The drawing on paper has hung flat against the wall or in free space as it is here. The amount of asemic writing in the drawing has increased with each installation.

Emptying (salvaged roofing, steel, muslin, linen, sycamore branch, buttons, steel wire, rust; 95 x 168 x 52)

Emptying (detail) (salvaged roofing, steel, muslin, linen, sycamore branch, buttons, steel wire, rust)

Arc for the Dreams of the Drowned (hair, roofing, copper rivets, dowels, cable; 90 x 41 x 30)

Arc for the Dreams of the Drowned (detail) (hair, roofing, copper rivets, dowels, cable)

Three Origin Stories in the Sixth Extinction (ceramic, charred timbers, horse hair, thread; 140 x 61 x 28)

Three Origin Stories in the Sixth Extinction (detail)

Bearing (charred cedar, salvaged pine lumber, rope, clay ; 106 x 93 x 37)

Bearing (detail) (charred cedar, salvaged pine lumber, rope, clay )

Three Husks (installation at the Hyde Collection) (steel, hair, wood)

Composition for Elie Wiesel (ceramic, barbed wire wrapped with pages from NIGHT by Elie Wiesel, wood; 57 x 267 x 9)

Composition for Elie Wiesel (detail)

Ceasefire (Gathering the Bones of the Beloved) (cedar, cherry, oak, steel shackles, barbed wire; 45 x 25 x 53)

Ceasefire (Gathering the Bones of the Beloved) (detail) (cedar, cherry, oak, steel shackles, barbed wire)

Charnel Ground (charred cedar, horse hair, adobe, pigments, clay on board; 16 x 108 x 24)

Calypso (repurposed galvanized roofing, horse hair, wood dowels, copper, steel bolts, sheet music, cable; 100 x 44 x 64)

The Lading (for Eve and for Mary) (oak, steel, red iron oxide, ceramic, dolly; 38 x 111 x 32)

The Lading (for Eve and for Mary) detail

This Was My Home, My Body, My Voice (wood, barbed wire, fur, roots, pencil, pigments; 128 x 67 x 6)

This Was My Home, My Body, My Voice (detail) (wood, barbed wire, fur, roots, pencil, pigments)

In the Silence Afterwards (charred wood, adobe, fur, pigment, pencil, metal brackets; 49 x 156 x 13)

In the Silence Afterwards (detail)

In the Silence Afterwards (installation at The Hyde Collection)

Yoke (after George Floyd) (oak, lead, horse hair, rope, chain; 110 x 66 x 24)

Yoke (after George Floyd)(detail)

Marker (red oak, horse hair; 58 x 36 x 26)

Marker (red oak, horse hair; 56 x 36 x 26)

There Were Forests (charred cedar, horse hair; 144 x 48 x 30)

There Were Forests (detail)

Installation at The Portsmouth Museum