Glazed stoneware, painted plaster island, 84" L x 96" W x 140" H 
Green Mine, Cibachrome photograph, 40" L x 30" W
Bomb, Cibachrome photograph, 40" L x 30" W
Vacancy, Helium sign with motion detector, 20" L x 4" H

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I have always recognized the potential for my works to set a stage upon which memories, myths, nostalgia, and imagination can play. As the scale of my work changed from hand-held objects to spaces one can physically enter I examine notions of the monumental.

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Mirage, the first of such installations, was comprised of an oasis of ceramic palm trees, succulents, and a painted plaster island, and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver in October 2000. To activate an element of theatricality, for the opening I commissioned a palm reader (Ruth Eure) seated in the installation to read visitors' palms, thereby highlighting the oasis as a projection of desires onto an illusory place in the distance. In 2016, for BMoCA, I produced a second photographic image of the Green Mine, called Bomb, which shows the front of a giant firework called Oasis, along with the reconstructed island, and curated another palm reading during the opening night of the exhibition.

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Driving my recent work is an interest in creating reflexive landscapes, constructions
that refer to their own construction. I am interested in how constructed settings enable, and perhaps limit, what can happen within their bounds. My interest is in creating a space akin to a stage set, where suspended disbelief enables the viewer to be transported to a place of reverie.