work > songs of the dark times (ongoing)

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.
- Bertolt Brecht, The Svenborg Poems (1939)

Begun in 2022 and arranged here chronologically from recent to past, this ongoing series of mostly wall mounted works is made with rage and grief and sorrow from fragments and scraps. In many ways these are three dimensional sketches born of witness and the necessity of expression and movement.

No Buildings Were Left Standing (steel frame windows, plaster, earth, wood, pigments, pencil; 94 x 58 x 10)

No Buildings Were Left Standing (steel frame windows, plaster, earth, wood, pigments, pencil; 94 x 58 x 10)

No Buildings Were Left Standing (detail)

No Buildings Were Left Standing (detail)

6 Photographs from the Genocide: Day 687 (wood, plaster, scrap steel, barbed wire, lead, pigments, string; 52 x 41 x 11 )

6 Photographs from the Genocide: Day 687 (detail)

No Buildings Were Left Standing (detail)

Instructions (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire; 23 x 51 x 2)

Instructions (detail) (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire)

Instructions (detail) (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire)

Kerosene Beauty (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire; 23 x 51 x 2)

Kerosene Beauty (detail) (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire)

Score for Unexploded Ordnance and Depleted Uranium (wood, wire, sheet music, graphite on gessoed paper, thread; 26 x 29 x 5)

Score for Unexploded Ordnance and Depleted Uranium (detail) (wood, wire, sheet music, graphite on gessoed paper, thread)

Coals (earth, charred timber, mixed media on gessoed board, lead, thread; 39 x 51 x 17)

Coals (earth, charred timber, mixed media on gessoed board, lead, thread)

21 grams (scrap wood, wire, galvanized roofing, thread; 59 x 29 x 11)

21 grams (detail) (scrap wood, wire, galvanized roofing, thread)

Window (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire; 23 x 51 x 2)

Window (detail) (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire)

Unnamed (wood, sheet music, galvanized roofing, steel rod; 42 x 36 x 8)

Unnamed (detail)

War Diaries: barrel bomb (scrap wood, plaster, black iron oxide, red iron oxide; 25 x 12 x 12)

War Diaries: shallow burial (scrap wood, plaster, clay, thread; 21 x 12 x 12)

War Diaries: shallow burial (detail)

War Diaries: mined (scrap wood, plaster, plaster, clay, thread, red iron oxide, black gesso; 23 x 16 x 9)