When I first came to the Ohio State University as a transfer graduate
student from the University of Arizona, I found myself beginning a room size
temporary installation. This installation grew into a series which comprised the
major works of my graduate studies. Extended meditations on my family
photographs and a need to revisit childhood experiences were the originating
impulses for these pieces. They incorporated kinetic elements along with found,
sculpted, and constructed objects. Some of these objects included a five-foot-
tall portrait bust sculpted from a wallet size school picture of my sister in first
grade, a seven-foot-tall replica of a crumpled piece of paper constructed out of
plywood, cement lawn ornaments, and the automobile I drove from Arizona
sliced in two. It was my desire for these works to function as vehicles for longing
and regret.