Momento Mori

“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 [...]

Light Panel: Girlfriend, Bride, Mother, Life: A Travelogue This slide display/light panel uses a large half-round, two-foot high ceramic, and is lighted only on one face. The lighted face is made up of clear and translucent Plexiglas which “sandwiches” a layout of 35mm. color slides; the back face contains a collage on top of wood [...]

Slide Display Pyramid Table A Plexiglas pyramid with various hardwood strips that serve as slide tray holders, as well as a front slide display area above the front drawer faced with multi-wood panel, within the box base.  The base, sitting on top of cherry hardwood legs, has black gloss insets on the sides and a [...]

Slide Display Good Brick Good Brick has a slab of blue-green copper glaze, with a texture of brick cross-section bas-relief in terracotta; the wood base is maple, with end caps containing maple, cherry, teak, and maple. Made for a desk, table, or shelf surface, with non-marring rubber feet at all four corners. The lighting fixture [...]

Slide Display One Hand Slapping One Hand Slapping has a slab of very dark glaze that offsets the finger and palm textures in the terracotta. This lamp has a base of oak, with end caps containing walnut. Made for a desk, table, or shelf surface, with non-marring rubber feet at all four corners. The lighting [...]

Light Panel 62/64 (prototype) A two-foot by four-foot panel presents 196 slides, lit from within by three double-sets of four-foot fluorescent fixtures. Wood used is cherry and cherry veneer plywood; base legs are on brass plated, swiveled rubber casters.  Light switch with white light switch plate in on back.  Marbles used as ornament; hand held, [...]

Slide Display 03 Angels on the Head of a Pin This example of a slab terracotta, blue/black-grazed square-form texture top slide display form used in the assemblage Angels on the Head of a Pin that holds 18 slides per face, with easy mount and change Plexiglas panels.  Wood used include walnut and cherry, and mahogany/oak [...]

Slide Display 02 Desk/Table Lamp This example of a half-round terracotta, purple-grazed arch, with soft-ridge texture, is not only a slide display holds that holds approximately 16 slides per face, with easy mount and change oak trays, but is also a desk or table lamp that casts light unto the surface through two cut outs [...]

Slide Display 01 This example of a half-round terracotta, blue/green-grazed arch, with triangle impressions, slide display holds approximately 16 slides per face, with easy mount and change oak trays.  Base made of square-butted oak, with rubber feet. Size: 24 in. (l) by 9 in. (w) by 14 in. (h). Price: NFS

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 [...]

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: 14 in. (w) by 26 in. (h) by 3½ in. (d). Price: $495 each; $3,125 as full set.

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: 14 in. (w) by 26 in. (h) by 3½ in. (d). Price: $495 each; $3,125 as full set.

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: 14 in. (w) by 26 in. (h) by 3½ in. (d). Price: $495 each; $3,125 as full set.

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.

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 full set.

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.

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.

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.

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 and beneath the base by old-fashioned Christmas tree lights. Size: 17 in. (h) by 10 in. (w) by 7 in. (d). Price: $625.

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 glass.  The block base is a multi-wood blank (with rubber feet), with a poplar upright trimmed with domino tiles, with a gold-waxed wood ball [...]

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 under-counter fixture. The front of the case [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]