2022-Current
Counting Stones, Counting Stars / ArtLink, Fort Wayne, Indiana / 2023
2023
109.5 inches x 253.5 inches
Inkjet print on perforated vinyl on windows
Counting Stones, Counting Stars was installed on the exterior windows of the Auer Arts Center for Art Link Gallery. Each rocks was created by using digital collage of artist’s images with watercolor drawings of rocks reminiscent of geological material found on Mars. Kepler maps were used as references for the composition.
Red Planet Gallery Images / ArtLink, Fort Wayne, Indiana & CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea / 2023
Statement Excerpt
Who are we?
Where are we now?
Where are we going?
Where do I end and you begin?
Where is the space between where we are and where we will be?
We see ourselves and others through myth, it is how we launch ourselves into our roles, onto our stage.
Drawings from Red Planet & Caricatures / ArtLink, Fort Wayne, Indiana & CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea / 2023
Sizes range from 24 x 36 to 24 x 72 inches
Collage, watercolor and ink on archival print
Statement Excerpt:
The figures within these drawings are hybridized from American mythology, contemporary culture and the classic swashbuckling tale, Journey to the West. Superimposed upon one another in ways that make them unrecognizable as individuals, their redundant qualities became doubled in a way that makes them archetypes.
The other becomes us.
We become the other.
The space between us is traversed and folded.
The same story is told again and again.
Sun Wukong, Wolverine and the cowboy become the culminated anti-hero. Bezos, Guanyin and Lady Liberty become the demigod upon whom we wish and hope for a whim of benevolence, but whose callousness would make a queen bee blush. Blue Ox and the Son of Ao Run are Sidekick, cardboard supporting roles whose stories we ignore.
Heroes don’t rescue, villains don’t crush- but everyone acts. Struggling towards atonement, power and love, we journey westward, upward, and back onto ourselves.
Red Planet Landscapes / 2023
Sizes range from 10.5 x 6.75 to 15 x 6 inches
Watercolor, ink, and collage on archival print on paper.
Statement Excerpt:
Mars stands in for the ultimate terra incognita. It is a place where our ambitions and fears don costumes of rock and flesh. Landscapes are acted upon and within, but spaces becoming active participants in the stories we tell as well. The rocks cry out.
Red Rocks / 2023
Sizes range from 1.75 x 2.75 to 4.5 x 8.5 inches
Watercolor and ink on paper.
Drawings created for the installation Counting Stones, Counting Stars.
Men on Mars / BOX13, Houston, TX / 2022
288 x 48 x 15 inches
Digital collage and drawing on paper, styrofoam, aerosol paint, fishing line, wooden dowels, LED bulbs, mylar, rice paper and synthetic dyes.
Men on Mars is a site-specific installation developed for BOX13’s Window Box, facing Cesar Chavez street in Houston.
A window glowing in pinks and reds of an imaginary Martian landscape reminiscent of the idealized American West, Men on Mars investigates how myth plays a central role in how we experience our own spaces and selves and colors our perception of others. It uses imagery of recent corporate space travel while sardonicizing themes of adventure, exploration and national exceptionalism found in mythic structures. The work pulls from ancient Chinese myth texts Shan Hai Jin and Journey to the West and hybridizes them with American mythology: historical (ex: Paul Bunyan), contemporary (ex: Captain America), and ideal (ex: The American Dream).
Images utilized are artists’ own, as well as from Currier and Ives’ Chronicles of America, The Smithsonian image database, NASA database, The Biodiversity Heritage Library, comic books 1982-current, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others.
Digital collage for Men on Mars / 2022
288 x 48 inches
Mars Diorama Photographs / 2022
