As the artist in residence for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Youth Program in 2013-2014 I collaborated with 30 members of the AGO Youth Council on a project that we titled U.G.L.Y: Unified Geniuses Living Young. Our exhibit in the AGO Community…
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I am interested in the transformation of materials from their organic state to a mass produced and then consumed product. Charcoal is a common artists’ tool manufactured into various forms, but in its simplest form it is the residue of impure carbon easily…
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The weather network took an interest in a group show that I put together at the Wychwood Artscape Community Gallery. The three artists showing together have a serious interest in conservation. Kasia Burdaka, who interviewed me nicknamed me Echo-the-Eco-Artist The show was…
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In December of 2011 AnalogAnalogue secured a booth at the Fountain Art Fair in Miami during Art Basel. We changed the content of the booth over 4 times a day. Here’s an example of our collaborative work, in this case an…
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The Tallahassee Leon County Shelter In 2011, Callie Currie (aka SWOON) came to Tallahassee as a visiting scholar and lecturer through FSU, with the added intent of completing a community-based project. We were fortunate enough to be able to assist in…
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Visitors to the gallery were encouraged to take up stick and join in a continual rhythmic experience by banging on a variety of ramshackle, handmade and found percussive instruments. This was a translation of an experience the art team had after a…
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With all of my work, no matter the media the effect that I hope for is to spark a discussion around ecological and social issues. I aspire to raise the collective consciousness and encourage positive change. With duct tape chastity belts and…
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I came across a good deal of microscope slides and spent a summer with a book called “Pollen from Canadian Honey Bees” while homesick for Ontario while living in Florida. The book was filled with detailed photographs taken with a microscope to…
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Kudzu, has been a popular food in Japan and China for thousands of years. The three parts of the kudzu plant that are edible are the:Â Young leaves and vine tips, Flower blossoms, and Roots. However, it’s the tuberous roots that offer this…
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In the studio the 5 x 30 foot roll was installed on 2 dowels so that I may work on it 6 feet at a time. Everything was covered in a fine layer of black dust! My reference material stapled to the…
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Shortlisted finalist for a major public art installation in Hamilton for Battlefield Park to commemorate the battle there during the war of 1812. Designed in 2012. “My installation creates a space that will immerse viewers in an audio and experiential simulation of…
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The photo above is from a performance called Shirt Off Your Back that AnalogAnalogue performed in Miami Florida in 2011. We screenprinted a small selection of designs onto anything the viewers wanted, passed it to be blown dry, then to another member…
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These “vials of sadness” as one viewer aptly named them were installed in a vending machine during an art crawl. April 20th marks the anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. Heidi Haire and I fabricated…
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There are a great many types of bees. The particular bee in this painting is called a solitary bee and has a green furry back. She and her kind place their young in hollow reeds. They create a wax next inside, fill…
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Litterscape was a one time collaborative, viewer-interactive temporary installation with artists Heidi Haire, Jeffrey Hemming, and Johnson Hunt. On Friday, April 2nd 2010, gallery goers were invited to embellish murals of Florida landscape beach scenes with their choice of refuse. The artists…
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Using the materials and methods familiar to Archaeologists we surveyed the Urban landscape for clues into the lives of those who made an impact on a particular site. Rather than unearthing/discovering artifacts from the ancient past, we discover artifacts from the recent…
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I was living in Florida and looking for an orange as a model for another painting. I couldn’t find a FL orange! This is a painting of 3 oranges, one from Peru, another Australia and the third from Argentina… None even from…
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Oil on Canvas 3 x 4′ The inspiration for this work comes from industrial processes. Raw materials are dug out of the earth and smoke stacks send altered particles that have lived underground for millennia into the sky. This mixing-bowl approach to…
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