Breathing Circle #3

mixed media, 15 x 15"photo;6x6"box, 2024

gelatin silver print combined with pedestal (or wall) mounted wood-framed steel die tools, as "breathing circles". Inspired by the original 'circles' in Georgia's First African Baptist church.
Air holes were drilled in sanctuary floors and disguised as decorative designs. Fleeing slaves hid beneath from searching slave owners.

My current works are sculptural constructions composed of salvaged industrial and marine metals and domestic hardware. I join each piece to highlight their surface, color and texture and to exploit the unique properties of each material. My constructions also incorporate traditional gelatin silver prints with the intent of combining two and three dimensions into a unified form. I recycle found and salvaged objects to reconfigure new forms and re-imagine artifacts to reference history, culture and the environment.

My studio is in Seattle and education is in photography, art history and sculpture. I spent many happy hours as a child in my father's machine shop in Brooklyn where my fascination with industrial metals and machined forms began. I'm inspired by the texture, history and former life of objects that bear signs of their past use. I have created various site specific installations in outdoor public spaces regionally, and exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally for the past 25 years. Medialia Gallery,NJ represents my work.