Momento Mori

Daddy’s Girl (2000) A wall-hanging assemblage within a glass-faced blue-painted maple box, with illumination at the inside top. Materials include fragment of found frame and mirror, Polaroid proof portrait of artist and daughter, post-it note, various wood veneers and wood pieces, a low-fire terracotta piece, a lens, other objects, and copper leaf. Size: 17 in. [...]

“I Never Meta-Lynch Lodge” This Memento Viva commission entailed an end table form with 28 inch glass top, with illuminated triangle skirt box (mostly ash and hickory), with slide display outer sides. Interior of triangle skirt box contains assemblage lit with recessed mini lights and with Plexiglas lens. Underneath the skirt box base are halogen [...]

“Bustabaytovan 220″ This Memento Viva commission celebrated the end of a major basement renovation project, and is a wall-hanging glass- and Plexiglas-faced box with various object arranged within, and with handmade paper and collage on the back face of the box.  Illumination comes from “rope lights” attached the the inside top. Size: 36 in. (w) [...]

Rich, Perfection, Projection, Reflection (2000) A coffee table piece, with drawer, casters, built on a one-hundred year-old yellow pine shipping box, with new walnut trim and walnut and maple drawer front; with assemblage of mirrored sunglasses, text on paper and glass fragment, and plate mirror within a dark-green upholstered box, under pate glass surface. Other [...]