Bleak and Bleaker, 2007

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Bleak and Bleaker examines power shifts --not totalitarian power or repressive regimes, but rather small actions that beget or lose small amounts of power, among individuals.  This work asks the viewer to consider why the characters are in particular positions, making particular gestures, what happened or is about to happen, whether characters are winning or losing ground, and what other shifts, physical or psychological, might occur.  I am also interested in the collapse of the dichotomy of good and evil, a space where each character has the potential to be both hero and baddie. 

Untitled (baton), 15x20"

Untitled (eye hole), 15x20"

Untitled (cloud), 15x20"

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Untitled (hammer), 15 x20"

Untitled (rock), 20x15"

Untitled (trophy), 20x15"