10-1/4”H x 32”W x 4”D
Pine, steel, found painted wood, lead
Pine, steel, found painted wood, lead
Pine, Mexican tire detritus, auto glass shards, tar, red oxide powdered pigment and ultramarine blue concrete pigment
11-3/8” H x 72-3/4”W x 6”H
On a 1978 road/research trip to Mexico City and Cuernavaca with my wife Susan we collected roadside detritus. Tire tread discards worked their way into this piece. The top tread pays homage to how the material is transformed by necessity, invention and creativity in Mexico. Tire treads become shoes, building materials and creative features incorporated into roadside sculptures, signs, markers and art. In Mexico, tire tread is a valuable commodity where recycling and repurposing is a way of life.
Wood, roofing paper, corrugated steel, twigs, 1978
Pine, eucalyptus, found wood siding, roofing felt, steel, tar
15-1/2” H x 80-3/4”W x 7-1/2”D
Artwork placed in Joshua Tree to weather, patina and catch desert detritus.
One of the four artworks exhibited at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Artists Investigate the Environment,1978.
Pine, Steel white cement w/bamboo leaves
9-1/2”H x 72-1/2”W x 6”D
Pine, Steel white cement w/bamboo leaves
9-1/2”H x 72-1/2”W x 6”D
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Pine, lead, clay w/raffia
7-1/4H x 22”W x 4”D
Pine, steel, copper, bamboo, clay, cement, red oxide powdered pigment
and ultramarine blue concrete pigment
Pine, steel, copper, bamboo, clay, cement, red oxide powdered pigment and ultramarine blue concrete pigment
Pine, steel, copper, corrugated steel, bamboo, clay, raffia, found beer caps (collected @ Uruapan Park, Mexico), tar, red oxide powdered pigment and ultramartine blue concrete pigment.
11-3/4”H x 72”W x 6-1/8”D
The bottle caps were found embedded in hard packed soil where a drink/food stand stood.
A rough circular area where the portable stand occupied was free of caps. The density of the caps radiated out from this in area in decreasing density. The caps were worn smooth by wear, remnants of the brand revealed in the depressions of the dent made my the can opener. A social gathering place absent yet recording the social interaction of use and chance.
