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Top Row:   33 Chemicals: The Potential Effects - in-ground installation of glass, water, fired clay text, leather hard text  of 33 chemicals sedimenting into the water. Making the unknown-known, making the invisible-visible.

Next Row:  Desertification, 2008  A response to man monkeying with the weather ie: cloud seeding - controlling new areas to receive rain and in the process disrupting the natural flow of air and water currents over the globe - which in turn create desertified areas. 16 x 12 x 14 Dried cracked clay on floor with a hurricane formation from the ceiling of exploded steelbelted radial tires.  

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Row 3:  Regenerentropic Water Core Spiral Installation - 7' tall recycled stacked glass jars create minibiospheres when site water samples are encased.  Shown here: viewers getting a closer look and reading text on glass.

Row 4 -  Left to Right:  DrawingProcessDrawing series. 7 x 4' (at right) cut and immersed in acrylic tube with specific waters researched in that drawing.  Video Porthole, 2008.  Small sculpture installation - underwater ocean video viewed through a facsimile of a boat porthole as though the boat were also underwater.  Accompanying journal for viewers to record their experiences and memories illicited by the work.  Far Right: Expiration Date 20__?, 2009 Welded cat food cans with slumped recycled glass jars.  The cans originally took the form of a globe, but have since collapsed.  All materials are stamped with expiration dates.  Rampant consumerism moves the globe closer to ITS expiration date.

Row 5 - Digital Photography Documentation: Left to right - Miami Pollution - oil slick - beauty & horror; Erosion Asphalt - as we layer the earth with roads and highways, the erosion and water pollution run-off from same, we in turn contribute to water pollution; Miami Pollution II; Takin' the Road with . . . , 2009, photo documentation of discarded eroded asphalt collection for an installation.

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The known and the unknown equal uncertainties in our failing environment.  However, I believe that artists bring attention to issues in life - if the work has clarity, then the viewer begins a dialogue between the work and self, then into dialogue with others.  In a best-case-scenario, the viewer is motivated to take action concerning the issue at hand.

I believe water is the lifeblood of this planet and each living being on it.  It is vital that we inhabitants make drastic changes in the manner in which we treat water.  Our oceans, rivers and streams should no longer be treated as sewers.  

Through ECOLOGICAL ART we can be educated and shown ways to get involved to make positive changes in our environment to facilitate good health and survival.