SHRINES

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Video documentation of the SHRINES art projects. Click on screen to start video. 

 

 

 

I am creating a variety of contemplative shrines that reflect on relationships between contemporary culture, the natural world and the the natural cycles of time; day and night, summer and winter, life and death.

 
Aesthetically, this work encompasses ideas from both high and low culture; museum displays, hunting trophies, movies, Latin American roadside memorials, Asian temples, American kitsch, Italian Baroque, and historical landscape painting.  (see images below).   

 

 

ANIMAL SHRINES, 2007 - 2011

 

Animals Shrines (group in studio)

 

  

  

 

THE SEASONS, 2007 - 2010

 A group of four dioramas that are constructed like curiosity cabinets or museum displays.  They contain video, electronics, and moving parts.    

 
 
   THE SEASONS: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, 2007 - 2010
 
 
 

 

 

KING  & QUEEN, 2006 - 2009

Embedded video animations are integrated into elaborate structures that appear to be paintings but reveal projections as well as assemblages on and below the surface.

 

 

 

KING OF BEASTS, multimedia, 88x60 inches                                      QUEEN OF AGES, multimedia, 88x60 inches