Mixed Media Sculpture

Memory

How do you create a physical form for something so intangible as a memory? The different characteristics of memorization influences and determines their creation.

Baby Teeth illustrates a palpable memory that jumps out and makes itself remembered quite physically.
Bunny, my childhood stuffy, is a isolated memory, where only the tiniest strand of significance remains.
The Cardboard Bothy represents an assimilated memory, which is created through absorption of family history and cultural ancestry.
A false memory is fabricated entirely from imagination such as The Memory Machine.

Baby Teeth, 2011. Bass wood. 1.5×1.5×2.5″ each. *SOLD* Baby Teeth recalls an unpleasant physical memory of losing a tooth. Even while typing this I make a face.

Bunny, 2011.

Bunny, 2011. Blob Bunny to those who have no heart -his representation is technically accurate and detailed to capture his importance.

Bunny, detail, 2011. Bass wood. 6.5x18x5″.

Memento Box, ceramic 2014. Hinged box contains 18 catalogues from each class member. Ceramic, 2014.

Cardboard Bothy, 2012. Resembling a Scottish bothy, a gratis basic shelter found in remote mountains, the portable cardboard cottage embodies the hilltop stone shelter of my ancestors.

Cardboard Bothy, 2012. Carboard. 5’x6.5’x8′. Tab and slot construction.

Cardboard Bothy, 2012. Cardboard, and wind, and a little awkward.

Cardboard Bothy, 2012. It was set up as a shelter for a camping trip.

Memory Machine, 2012.

Memory Machine, 2012. A confabulation of imagination that appears to be a viable apparatus. Wear the head piece, turn the crank and think of someone you lost.

Memory Machine, detail, 2012. Wood, copper, felt, Meccanno, leather bound handmade journal. 24x7x20″.

Mixed media sculpture

3 R’s of X-Mess, 2010. Mixed media, wood, wheels.

The Christmas season brings joy, but also a guilty shock in the form of waste paper, packaging, unwanted items, etc. Dressed as reindeer of recycled cardboard, we push the overburdened cart as a visually entertaining reminder of the recycling three “R”s.

Dandelion, 2009. 5.25 inch floppy disks, video and cassette tape, wire, styrofoam.

Like the seeds of a dandelion ensures its future, our past technological innovations ensure dynamic growth.

The Weather Maker, 2009. Wood, bone, rawhide, chestnuts, gourd.

Imbued with the power of Mother Nature, the Weather Maker can control the climate from local to global conditions. Yes, I have it set at Heat…

3 R’s of X-Mess, Santa Claus Parade, 2010. 3rd Place Elves Award, Santa Claus Parade, Kamloops. Group project.

3 R’s of X-Mess, Santa Claus Parade, 2010. Reduce, reuse, recycle reindeer costume.

Dandelion*, 2009. *SOLD* Just as the seeds of a dandelion foster its continuance, so do our innovations from past technologies foster our future.

Dandelion, 2009. *SOLD* 5 1/4″ floppy discs, video and cassette tape, wire, video case. 3’x3’x7′.

The Weather Maker, 2009. Imbued with the power of Mother Nature, the Weather Maker can control the climate from local to global conditions.

The Weather Maker, detail of Field Intensity Regulator, 2009. Made of natural materials. Four keys combine to create any weather condition.

The Weather Maker, detail, 2009.

The Weather Maker, detail, 2009. This is set at hot, dry wind.