How to Stay Alive in the Woods
Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA , June 20 - July 27, 2013


Untitled Worktable, exhibited as part of How to Stay Alive in the Woods, Is made from a process of damage and repair in which the object's experiential history is part of the work. The result can be seen as exploring the role the body plays in shaping the mind, a thought map of embodied cognition in which the viewer is invited to participate in its sense of unresolved not-knowing. It also considers the "work" of art - that of trying to put forth desires, or wishes to the universe.

How to Stay Alive in the Woods
Platform Gallery
2013
Installation Shot, Platform Gallery
2013
The observational painting, "Welcome, Ghosts" behind "Worktable", the structure that served as its model.
Welcome, Ghosts
2013
oil on canvas
36" x 48"
Worktable (A Plea for Better Leaders in the Form of Automatic Sculpture)
2013
Cardboard, wood, putty, paint, duct tape, dedicated Ipod Nanos and speakers
2.5 x 5 x 4 feet
But My Heart is Wild and My Bones are Steel
2013
oil on canvas
36" x 48"
It is Difficult to Teach Bones
2013
oil on canvas
36" x 48"
Detail showing the animation "Susan" imbedded in the larger piece, "Worktable"