Breeding Pattern

Introduce House Sparrows into your environment today!
Also, learn more about the propagation of this species through the Vagus Nerve.

For Grackly...too old for fighting with his reflection.

Pinata Sunday

Punch This Bag

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To see the bag in action, Play This Clip

White Snake/ White Heat

Last Leg

Terrariums

Only the Lonely

Top image: installation view of a locked room with audio playing inside, Tamarus Studio, Las Vegas, NV. Bottom: Self-Portrait in XO Karaoke, Las Vegas. Below is the recording of the entire set; all songs regarding being lonely/alone, performed in seclusion.

Ice Purse

Sam's Town

As a new resident to Las Vegas, I am seeing multiple artificial environments and thinking about the work that it takes both the creator and those experiencing those environments to make such places possible. Tremendous amounts of innovation, research, and resources go into making places of fantasy and visitors are asked to do their part and not look behind the curtain. Really, it's better for everyone.

Fall 2009

Scarlet Letter Hotpants

On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth,
 surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic 
flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.
………..
"She hath good skill at her needle, that's certain,"
 remarked one of the female spectators; "but did ever 
a woman, before this brazen hussy, contrive such a
 way of showing it! Why, gossips, what is it but to 
laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make 
a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for 
a punishment?"

"It were well," muttered the most iron-visaged of the old dames, "if we stripped Madam Hester's rich gown off her dainty shoulders; and as for the red letter, which she hath stitched so curiously, I'll bestow a rag of mine own rheumatic flannel, to make a fitter one!"

"O, peace, neighbours, peace!" whispered their youngest companion. "Do not let her hear you! Not a stitch in that embroidered letter, but she has felt it in her heart."
................
The Scarlet Letter: A
 Romance
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1850
Excerpts from Chapter II, The Market-Place

How does your garden grow?

Strabismus Explored

Magical......

While You Were Out

Preserving pigeon wings:
Soak in dense salt water for two weeks
Nail to a board
Dry for one week
See them at The Telephone Room

Black Bag at Tollbooth Gallery

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Black Bag

Puppy Bag

Black Bag

Bag Mouth (above) is a portion of a project for Tacoma's Tollbooth Gallery.

It will open November 18th.

Black Bag is an attempt to make charged scenarios with mechanized toy parts and plastic bags.
Technology and instinct (fear, aggression, care, the search for food) are intertwined in a relationship that is complex and exciting to me. I don't know why my T.V. works better when I hit it, but it does. Focusing my research on animal models offers a critical distance to engage with these questions. Animals are often regarded as living machines that use neurons instead of electronic components to create complex situations. To me this belief, raises as many questions about humans as it does animals.

Some of the pirated machines in Black Bag were originally intended to imitate humans, some animals, and some are undecided (Elmo?). By veiling the toys in plastic bags, I am striving for visceral responses to entirely manufactured, mechanical scenes.

Recently Spayed