Altar for the Disposessed  1992 82h x 62w x 2d	Bridge  1992 60h x 79w x 2d	Common Ground  1992 56h x 81w x 2d	Study for "The Dream"  1992 15h x 21w	Study for "The Future"  1992 14h x 20w
Study for "Good Enough for Them"  1992 12h x 18w	"High Density"  1992 63h x 80w x 2d	"Looking Forward to the Past"  1992 36h x 51w x 2d	"Loner"  1992 41h x 53w x 2d	"New Plan Old Problem "  1991 55h x 83w x 2d
"No One's Plan"  1992 60h x 83w x 2d	"Progress"  1992 62h x 82w x 2d	Study for "Trapped"  1992 18h x 21w	"The Trouble Next Door"  1992 56h x 81w x 2d

Artists Statement

This work is from the series, Politics of Shelter. Imagery includes architectural drawings and plans, nonobjective gestural marks, and spatially ambiguous surface. The common element that joins these diverse objects is their ability to contain, provide shelter, delineate, or border one area of activity from another.

These works draw from diverse sources of personal experience, observation, and history, art and otherwise. They attempt to connect disparate aspects of culture and human behavior. A middle class, suburban, background has led me to a keen awareness of the cultural significance of boundaries. Boundaries express ownership and control. They create hierarchies and are exclusive. Boundaries may be viewed simultaneously as both positive and negative forces preventing society from falling into anarchy or achieving utopia. The consequence of this is the existence of an inherent dynamic tension in society: a constant state of flux.

Process and Materials

Images are drawn or collected from mass media sources, digitized, combined, contained, and manipulated with the assistance of a computer. This process, while utilizing technology, embodies the same aesthetic and empirical decision making that is applied to painting or drawing with traditional media. Ink jet or laser prints of the selected images are made into acrylic decals and applied directly to canvas. This is attached to 2" polystyrene architectural sheathing. The overall shape of the work is determined and cut out. Surface physicality is built up by the addition of acrylic paint and gel applied in transparent, iridescent, glazes. Vinyl concrete is applied to the edges of the work. The final step is the application of an ultra violet light inhibiting varnish.