Somnambulisms Show at Pigman Gallery with Ellen Babcock
September 2005

Have you ever had a dream where you keep seeing something, it's right in front of you. The story of the dream takes its various turns, but keeps coming back to this object. The thing relates to your dream in some kind of symbolic way. Then you wake up, and that thing from your dream is the thing right in front of you...the coffee cup left on the nightstand, except that it your dream it didn't look like a coffee cup, it looked like a cup you had as a kid, and it seemed very important...

"Somnambulisms" means dreamwalkings. For this show, Ellen Babcock and I reconfigure everyday, domestic materials to create scenes which contain a story, or part of a story, or at least move beyond their humble origins.



Outside the Frame, cut wood panelling, 2005




Drag Dollars Series, embroidered dollar bills, 2001-2005






Intimacies, pantyhose-covered saucers, 2003




Finding Water in the Desert Series, Mom's Liquor and Donuts, cut wood panelling, 2005







Artist's Statement:
Having grown up in the desert of Southern California, the Landscape of the West and the Western style of living is central to my work. My current sculptural work combines a claustrophobic domesticity with an absence of focus, a feeling I remember from the desert, living inside a small cinderblock house, surrounded by the vastness of the landscape.