There are 3 projects on view in the "projects II" area located in the portfolio section : 365 Days: A Journal, Instant Rings and Hybrids.

On the "projects I" page, some of the smaller components of another project are on view.

365 Days:

Beginning April first, 2001, I started the year-long project which ended March 30, 2002. Being mindful of each day and what was going on around me, I chronicled the highlights in a visual diary, ultimately giving it form with 3/4 inch photo-transparencies, folded into open-ended cubes that could be slipped over a silver shank and worn as a ring. Each ring keyed securely onto a display shelf made of painted alder that spanned 28 feet. In addition to the photo-transparencies, there were 12 silver shanks, one for each month. While the piece is primarily conceptual, the individual rings could be removed and worn. The images ranged from a riot of clouds I watched as I was driving across the state of California (June 18) to those of the horrors and aftermath of 911 (ongoing for weeks), to a visit with my acupuncturist and everything in between.

Instant Rings:

This is a sculpture about jewelry, consumption and taxonomy. It's a playful exploration of materials and idea, containing 49 "rings" altogether. Each was made in about 15 minutes or less and each from a different material and presented on glass shelves. Leaves, beach glass, rubber from a spent car tire, thread, shells, steel machine parts, knitted cotton, a shaving from a pencil, thorns, found plastics, obsolete computer equipment, sea sponge, pages from an old encyclopedia, birch bark were among the materials used. What can a ring be made from (just about anything) and how does it classify as a ring? For me, any object or work of art that orients on or from the hand _can_ be constituted as a ring such as the small arrangement of beach glass that sits in the palm of the hand...indeed, it is a ring.

Hybrids:

This is an ongoing project. It is a celebration of the seemingly infinite variety of species we presently have on the planet which resulted from one of my forays into finding something constructive to do with waste materials. Using dead inner tubes destined for the landfill to construct the hybrids, no two are alike.