Candy-coated Pink

Forces of Nature: Whirlpools and Walmart Bath Rugs, 2008
Bath rugs and duct tape
dimensions: 108 inches x 116 inches

Installed at HEREart, New York City, New York, May 29 - July 5, 2014
Installed at Concordia University, Saint Paul, Minnesota. 2008
Installed at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, 2008


Forces of Nature: Hurricanes and Slinkys, 2007-2010
Steel, irrigation tubing, cable ties, paint, air fresheners, and artificial grass

Inspired by diagrams of hurricane development and the “wonderful toy” the slinky, the inexpensive Slinky seems so simple, but the physics of the spring and theories of Hooke’s law visualize the limits of stress that can be endured before it cannot be corrected when the stress is removed.


Forces of Nature: Tornados and Hula Hoops, 2009
Steel, irrigation tubing, cable ties, ratchet tie downs, and paint
Installed at 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Forces of Nature: tornados and Hula Hoops, 2008
PVC irrigation tubing and paint
Installed at The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky

Forces of Nature: tornados and Hula Hoops, 2007
PVC irrigation tubing and paint
Installed at the Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio


It’s a Wonderful Toy, 2008
Plastic slinky toys, wood, hinges, magnets, permanent marker, and personal poem written on slinky

In August, 2012, A Wonderful Toy was added to the National Library of Spain located in Madrid.  This art book was part of the first Monumental Ideas in Miniature Book project organized and curated by Hui Chu Ying, Printmaking Professor, University of Akron.


Entitlement Pills: Wisdom and Joy, 2006
candy machine, Good & Plenty candy, and blue food color
49" x 20" x 12"