The dominant theoretical concern of my work has been to document environmental issues in the complex balance and reciprocity found in our relationship with other species and the fragile ecological resources. I see the consumption of our planet as not only calculated and selfishly pragmatic, but infused with and in our cultural paradigms, making this behavior even more resistant to change.

In my work I have attempted to convey information to the viewer in a form that is visually engaging, and also confrontational, seducing the individual into this relation of facts and consequences. In this I have been influenced by Donald Judd for his cool mathematical progressions and Joseph Kosuth for the intellectual generation evoked by his work. The two influences converge in content and physical presence within my work. Another influence is the work of Hans Haacke. The strongest and most apparent influence from Haacke is the education and transformation of the viewer from passive to active participant. I have also been influenced by Carl Sagan who fuses the exactness of science with the poetry of the imagination.

By creating works that mimic natural processes, I am alluding to the cyclical nature of time and change. In the installation “You Are Here” this allusion is present in the dripping of water on the stones. The water can also be read as the seed from which all life emerged the broth of the cosmic soup. The stones are arranged along the line of a spiral, The spiral, has neither a beginning nor an ending, another metaphor for time and process. Located in one corner of the installation there is a mass of volcanic ash. The ash represents everything, it is everything that ever was and everything the ever will be, it is the beginning and the end, containing all our yesterdays. The ash is also present in the large stone slab, upon which is written the history of the universe, compressed into a year. The text on this slab tells the story of history, and the unconceivable vastness of time which passed before we, as a species even entered the picture. It tells us where we are and is a metaphor for place, a perspective of humility from which I feel even more human and more united with the earth.