Art

A woman bends down to look at fruit. The backdrop is an earth image, tangled roots, and green.
A small image of a couple viewing poppies while standing in an image of the earth filled with tangled roots.
A man and a boy discuss gardening and compost as they stand on the earth viewing a large root system.
Man stands on the earth contemplating the vastness of the planetary and a large earth shape filled with roots.
three images of the earth showing drought, flood, and green regeneration. A man is poised above suggesting a choice must be made.
Earthbound Man: Three Futures 36x12"

Renewing the Forest Charter of 1217

The work below assembles eight collages [each 10 x 8″] responding to reading The Charter of the Forest of 1217, which restored rights to land and resources to “free men,” land that had been enclosed by Kings. This  created lawful rights to what one needs for subsistence or survival, gradually defining a “commons.” This Charter accompanied the Magna Carta. It set the stage for more “abstract” rights, leading up to Human Rights and now environmental rights and laws. Arguably, to remember, to renew, to rethink this charter now is to reconsider what counts as a “commons” in the Anthropocene, an age of planetary disruption and climate change. How do we, as “Earthbounds” manage our relationship to a commons, i.e., the Earth on which our and other species depend for our collective survival?

eight images that represent the earth as drought and then as flood and then the gradual regeneration of both the earth and human beings.

Rescuing the Future

People in kayaks in rough seas try to rescue a boy caught on a branch. The background is turbulent.
Rescuing the Future 1 18 x 12"
People in a boat and canoes row toward another group of people they try to rescue. Background has an industrial plant and what looks like fire.

New Work: 2024

boy with sunflowers
Boy Saves Sunflower Seeds
two girls with copy of constitution
Deportation
boy digging in fertile soil
Regeneration
Girl with plastic bag and American flag and fireworks in the background.
Refugee
girl running from disaster
Leaving
woman staring out into chaotic disaster
War & Displacement
goose swimming in vague environment
A Goose
two children working with flowers in front of earth with people sailing toward mars in the background
Earthbound 1
boy standing on earth
Earthbound 3
planet with type on it people reading the words
Earthbound 8
woman with two children inside transparent globe of earth
Earthbound 5
Foolishness
Woman holds up transparent earth globe containing poppies
Earthbound 4

New Work: 2023

Children Playing in the Sea: Series

two children looking at a duck while standing in the sea
two children playing in the sea
two children with woman playing in the sea
two children playing in the sea
three children at beach building in sand and two ducks approaching them
two children on beach with iceberg in the background and many birds near the children
girl walking in water following birds
girl stands on iceberg with iphone
two men standing by an iceberg
wild seas with small rowers

Inspired by forests

girl runs through forest two people run in opposite direction
Woman sitting in water contemplating next to forest and landscape
Men frolicking in a forest.
woman walking through forest and water facing graffiti covered building
Girl faces a huge forest.

Everyday Life in the Anthropocene:

Working with the ambiguity of clouds, mist, water, and possibly pollution.