Piles

steel
7 x 22 x 16

Alternately titled "Monument to Failure", I made this work after extensive research into the nature of objects superseding their structural limits (I backed my car into old steel lockers). In Washington DC, there are a great many monuments to "winning" and "success" (mostly in the shape of stone phalluses), this was the idea of a monument to "losing".

12 GA welded Steel

5'8" x 2' x 2'

This triptych was seen as a re-building of a pile of rubble in that its creation, by necessity, entailed a layering of the charcoal from back to front and from nothing to something, as if rebuilding the parts of the pile or un-doing destruction; thus, Destruction/Construction

charcoal and blue chalk-line chalk on Rives BFK

triptych, each: 45” x 31” x 2.5”

steel
6 x 17 x 12

steel
6 x 17 x 12

pencil, marker, collage on vellum 11x17

pencil and marker on vellum 11x17

chipboard
18 x 56 x 36

chipboard
18 x 56 x 36

chipboard
9 x 28 x 18

chipboard 9 x 28 x 18

pencil on paper
18 x 24