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State of Heaven

1990 proposal State of Heaven will directly address the severe nature of ozone depletion. The project will take the form of an immense hand knotted carpet, “floating” in its specifically designed...

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Tantric Dream Diagram

1991 pigment and paper on roofing slate 14 1/4 x 8 inches detail from the installation Degrees of Paradise

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Party Mask for 1999

1996 wood, gold leaf, mirror 4 x 7 x 1 3/4 inches “From a dream. I was at the party but I was blind wearing a plain mask. I took off the mask and the interior was carved and my eyes were reflected in...

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QWERTY Courbet

2001 laser-cut steel, modified keyboard, CPU, monitor, software, bronze, velvet installed in a wall, double-sided: keyboard installation: 38 x 38 inches, monitor/curtain installation: 20 x 20 inches...

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Scholar’s Nightmare

2001 wood, dye, animal part 30 3/4 x 60 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches A Ming-style table, as seen in a dream, where reality and abstraction converge.

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Safe

2005 oil on Belgian linen, gilded wood and plaster, weathered wood, nails 144 x 84 x 18 inches This is a lamentation on the continuing tragedy that is the Congo. No nails could keep them safe from...

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A magnified CALL OUT Representing a Stratigraphic Sum of ALL Human Existence-...

2006 graphite, vellum, white out, color pencil 12 x 16 inches Unspecified creative activity evidenced as voids in the sedimentary matrix of redundant and hostile reality.

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Circumfessional Hymenal Sea (Portrait of Jacques Derrida)

2006 books, paper, wood, silver-point, paint 77 x 77 x 62 inches An ivory tower to leap from and into. The image of this work originated in a dream and immediately made sense of Derrida’s quip that he...

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