The tarpaulin works began in the darkest days of the pandemic. It seemed as if things were never going to be “business as usual” ever again. Starting over seemed to be the logical thing to do. Rather than head back out into hardware and art supply stores, materials were scavenged from what was around - old tarps and half used cans for spray paint. Along with the beat of whatever music was playing in the back ground at the time, the work was produced quickly and rhythmically. It soon became aware that the cheap canvas tarps could handle only so much paint, so a system was devised that fluctuated between chaos and control. First, half empty and clogged cans of spray paint were punctured and exploded onto a tarp; as many as four times. Once the paint dried, graphite lines were laid down in response to the intermingling of the folds in the canvas and the settling of the paint.  Finally, a paint roller, used both as a stamp and a roller, activated the space on and in-between the lines of graphite, both containing and directing its tap, tap tapping. The resulting works are not “paintings”; they are two dimensional sculptures - that "3/4" depth is very important, as are the backs, the markings on the wall that position them and the hardware from which they hang.

 RE>CRETE> is a custom designed, 95% recycled building material made from shredded newspaper and junk mail, ground up packing Styrofoam, home electronics wire, credit cards, CDs and DVDs, salvaged house paint, Portland cement and glass pozzolan.  The development over the past 12 years of RE>CRETE> is an attempt to rebuild the world out of its own waste. The various materials that are recycled and used in the recipe to create RE>CRETE> are materials that store and transmit information, power our homes and businesses, transport goods around the world and supply us with the funds to persist. RE>CRETE> is currently used to build sculptures, which are not only sculptures but a form of hypothetical research towards the building on a larger, architectural scale. At the heart of the RE>CRETE> project is a suggestion towards grinding it all down and starting over. Make no mistake about it -- RE>CRETE> is a conceptual material.

 The ROLLER works contain SPACE (in that they were used to paint a space), TIME (that space was painted within and at a certain time) and the wheel like “roller" covers a DISTANCE (how long depends on the viscosity of the paint used) Therefore SPACE + TIME + DISTANCE = EXPERIENCE.