title : high water mark
medium : oil pastel, magazine cuttings and ink on paper, wood support
dimensions : 7″high x 11″wide (ish)

This dates back to somewhere in the vicinity of 1997-8. This is not its original title, undocumented and now forgotten. I believe this also was sold.

Whatever the title was I can tell you this about it now : it suddenly seems rather … future-transmissive.

If you are not comfortable with currently popular prognostications of (coastal) forests submerging underwater, you can also think of this as merely a poignant reflection of common concerns about climate change/rising sea levels long proclaimed and forewarned by countless cautious experts and many sobre judges.

I do remember making it. I was all the while puzzled by it entirely, watching it appear more out of its own momentum than any design of mine. It took shape through sheer force of will I’d say but I would not say it was my own will. So … just what am I saying, eh… ?

This next offering is from the same ball-park in time/space :

title : enough said
medium : magazine cuttings on masonite
dimensions : 5″ high x 7″ wide
transcription :

it’s a money game
like dodge ball
politicians : insecure little fucks
dying to see their name in print

The world puts
its stock in
corporate
euphoria

oil burns

money talks

in the final analysis it can help keep you ahead of the game. IT WON’T PREPARE YOU
FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
centuries past kissed by fate then crushed beneath the
revolution the king had come FULL CIRCLE ENOUGH SAID

The thing I notice about this piece, (enough said), is this : it looks for all the world like a rough image construction of a modern city underwater. Huh.

The last thing I have for you today will take a bit of scrolling on your part. This was a triptych of three hinged panels, of the same era as these others. I say was because I recall it met with misfortune and only remains as these few scans of itself…

title : the search
medium : magazine clippings on masonite
dimensions : 11 “high x 44″ wide (roughly)

A few details …

transcription :

heart, soul
and net worth

search
The MUSES
the atmosphere
the amount of snowfall
searching
unfamiliar surroundings
navigation from the ground up
from whispers
thousands of miles
away

i have to be more careful
i have to be more careful

something
goes
wrong