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A qui est ce babiole monde? (2003)
A floor-standing assemblage and lamp based on a Rinso Detergent crate with interior upholstery, two Plexiglas collages, and an interior-gilded (gold-leaf) globe, split and separated by hemisphere. The first illumination source in from within the globe halves, where a large glass globe resided; under the box is a [...]

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The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath (2003)
One of a series of seven wall-mounted assemblage of found and fabricated objects, including handmade paper, with various woods used in the glazed box frame boxes.
Size: [...]

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The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony (2003)
One of a series of seven wall-mounted assemblage of found and fabricated objects, including handmade paper, with various woods used in the glazed box frame boxes.
Size: [...]

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The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy (2003)
One of a series of seven wall-mounted assemblage of found and fabricated objects, including handmade paper, with various woods used in the glazed box frame boxes.
Size: [...]

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The Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth (2003)
A series of seven wall-mounted assemblage of found and fabricated objects, including handmade paper, with various woods used in the glazed box frame boxes.
Size: 14 in. (w) by 26 in. (h) by 3½ in. (d).
Price: $495 each; $3,125 as full set.

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The Seven Deadly Sins: Greed (2003)
One of a series of seven wall-mounted assemblage of found and fabricated objects, including handmade paper, with various woods used in the glazed box frame boxes.
Size: 14 in. (w) by 26 in. (h) by 3½ in. (d).
Price: $495 each; $3,125 as [...]

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The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust (2003)
One of a series of seven wall-mounted assemblage of found and fabricated objects, including handmade paper, with various woods used in the glazed box frame boxes.
Size: 14 in. (w) by 26 in. (h) by 3½ in. (d).
Price: $495 each; $3,125 as full set.

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The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride (2003)
One of a series of seven wall-mounted assemblage of found and fabricated objects, including handmade paper, with various woods used in the glazed box frame boxes.
Size: 14 in. (w) by 26 in. (h) by 3½ in. (d).
Price: $495 each; $3,125 as full set.

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Things That Come Between (2002)
Wall-mounted wood and Plexiglas assemblage box backed by an old photograph of three children, with found and fabricated objects interposed between it and front frame, with mini-lights illumination beneath base Plexiglas lens.
Size: 19 in. (w) by 19 in. (h) by 13 in. (d).
Price: $1,200.

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Two wood index card file boxes built on to a four-legged multi-wood base and spine house small assemblages and collages; this shelf- or table-top piece is illuminated, both within the boxes [...]

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Found cigar box with leather interior trim, housing a found toy pistol mounted with various hardware and with concrete driver charges (.22 cal. blanks); box is glazed with a sheet of [...]

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Timed Life (2004)
An assemblage built upon a small round found tabletop, with front legs made of antique woman’s shoes. Plexiglas-glazed display box made of various woods, including a multi-wood blank, contains a kinetic arrangement of various found and created objects, plus collage, with illumination provided through halogen [...]

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Flip Box (2003)
A small “hurricane” box placed on 12-inch tapered legs presents an assemblage of four Plexiglas sandwiches that hold fragment strips of letters, documents, books, and images which can be “flipped” through to regard; these plates are illuminated from within and beneath, with a dimmer switch. A separately-switched bell glass shade and fixture sits [...]

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Dream in a Box (2003)
A small, hinged carrying case is the frame for this assemblage that presents stacked and spread hand-written journal pages within a Plexiglas sandwich lit from behind. Other items include Scrabble tiles, a strip of black and white contact sheet, fabric, a door spy lens, and more.
Size: 13 in. (h) by 7 [...]

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Identity Kit (2003)
Based on a part of a silverware storage cabinet, this assemblage places casters as a base, with trimmed cutouts for a series of self-portrait slides on the cover lid (which opens), lit from inside. The interior presents various items.
Size: 15 in. (w) by 6 in. (h) by 12 in. (d).
Price: $725.

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Go Figure, Forth, and Multiply (2003)
A Booker’s Bourbon box and lid form the vertical aspect of this assemblage, with a collaged and metal-leafed Scrabble turntable and board, on six-inch tapered legs, form the base. Displayed in the front face of the box are a variety of slide rulers, while the inside, upholstered in red velvet, [...]

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The Cabinet of Self (2003)
Re-finished and re-trimmed found moving crate, interior has found and fabricated objects, including Victorian mirror, handmade paper, and oak shelf; found and re-finished pedestal base; separately-switched illumination from incandescent lighting with top lens of Plexiglas and paper (front) and green-glazed terracotta sconces (sides).
Size: 69½ in. (h) by 20 in. (w) [...]

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Four Elements: Moving, Staying, Breathing, Dying (2003)
Re-finished and trimmed found moving crate, with illuminated mixed-media collage on the back side, interior upholstered, with found and fabricated objects, wire front; legs are found pencil post bed posts, with Plexiglas and multi-wood blank shelf; separately-switched illumination from incandescent lighting (interior) and black-glazed terracotta sconces and Plexiglas lens [...]

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The Shape of Things (2003)
Re-finished found box (original use unknown), with gold-leaf on back side, interior upholstered, with found and fabricated objects, on found pedestal legs, top has green-glazed terracotta slab; incandescent lighting.
Size: 41 in. (h) by 13 in. (w) by 13in. (d).
Price: $1,550.

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Dramatis Personae: Tragedy (2003)
One of a two-piece set made of Teachers Cream Whiskey case boxes, orange- and green-stained, re-trimmed and upholstered, with found and fabricated objects, on found pedestal legs; incandescent lighting.
Size: 34 in. (h) by 12 in. (w) by 8 in. (d).
Price: $1,825 (includes both pieces).

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Dramatis Personae: Comedy (2003)
One of a two-piece set made of Teachers Cream Whiskey case boxes, orange- and green-stained, re-trimmed and upholstered, with found and fabricated objects, on found pedestal legs; incandescent lighting.
Size: 34 in. (h) by 12 in. (w) by 8 in. (d).
Price: $1,625 (includes both [...]

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Play Ball (2004)
An assemblage and collage enclosed with a small wooden box (Imperial Prunes) with lid raised; display box is faced with oak trim and gold-leaf highlighted Plexiglas.  This [...]

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Memory is the Orphan of the Child (2004)
Wall-mounted (D-rings) assemblage of ten small “drawer” boxes taken from a discarded parts cabinet, mounted on a horizontal veneer plywood (oak), trimmed in cheery [...]

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Found box bottom with clasped, hinged, and chained multi-wood top lid (teak, ash, cherry), mounted on aromatic cedar legs salvaged from “rustic-style” coffee table; other wood trim includes padauk and walnut. [...]

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A table-standing lamp (with two halogen fixtures under the main box) presenting an open box horizontally, inside of which is a found object (African knife) in a painted and upholstered interior; [...]