Geode
2012
hooded sweatshirt, aluminum tape, jug, water from the stream crossed to enter Magic Meadow, NY
The Golden Hour
2011
gold-leafed Coca-Cola bottles filled with mate de coca prepared with water from Frederic Church’s Olana in Columbia County (with a hint of sodium bicarbonate), water jugs with press on vinyl letters containing Olana water, water jugs with press on vinyl letters containing discarded Coca-Cola, hooded sweatshirt, chair, bottle capper, gold bottle caps, paper bag, plastic bag with press on vinyl letters, jar with press on vinyl letters containing sodium bicarbonate, hot plate, stainless steel pot, coca tea bags, gold foil tape, post cards of Frederic Church’s painting The Andes of Ecuador from Reynolda House Museum of American Art (former R. J. Reynolds mansion) gift shop, Goldwork and Shamanism: An Iconographic Study of the Gold Museum of the Banco de la Republica, Colombia by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, gold-mirrored acrylic sheets, acrylic sheets, acrylic vitrine, wood, paint
4’ x 13’ x 7’
Supernatural Inoculation
2011
Performance/action with: mason jars with Reishi, Phoenix oyster, and Shiitake spawn plugs (for various species of tree stumps), modified wooden crate, rubber mallet, camping stove, steel can, soy based wax, brush, hardwood dowels, resin, aluminum tape, T-shirt with hand sewn fabric, cap with acrylic brim and straw front panels
3 hours
Stumps were inoculated with medicinal mushrooms in an action presented as part of SkowheganPERFORMS at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY
Untitled (Ideal Free Distribution)
2011
left:
various wild foraged mushrooms, Mason jars, Flintstone vitamins, hydrogen peroxide, melatonin, brown paper bag, fermented papyrus, hand-cut holographic paper, stained wood, glass, fluorescent lights
6’ x 3’ x 2’
center:
digital photo print on aluminum, driftwood, metal bracket
26” x 36” x 4”
crock pot, hiking socks, Flintstones vitamin powder, salt, yogurt lids
12” x 14” x 10”
front:
various hardwoods, resin, plant ties, Flintstone vitamin dyed hiking socks
33” x 40” x 30”
Artifacts Are Sometimes Introduced
2011
digital print
6.5” x 15.5”
diptych
The Transfer of Forms
2011
HD video
If Our World is Actually Related to Other Worlds
2010-2011
Counterclockwise from Left:
Stoup
2011
76” x 30” x 8”
Witch-hazel with alcohol in bottle, mason jar lids, gauze, brass tube, solid brass
rod, plastic spoons, processed plants
Transcendentalist Library and The Canon of Medicine
2011
47” x 70” x 7”
spirit gum, artificial hair, and latex on acrylic sheet, English Yew, digital print,
tinted acrylic sheets, Cosmos DVD box, SDHC memory card with 459 PDFs,
mason jars, mason jar lids, gauze, pen on paper cup, alcohol, cotton bag,
medical tape, fluorescent tape
Transcend the Magician
2011
9” x 9” x 4”
yoga block, digital print
Certificate
2010
21” x 18” x 1.5”
gold certificate stickers, graphite, and tape on cotton rag paper, reconfigured
frame, acrylic sheet
The Way These Forms Came to Be Transferred
2011
59” x 85” x 44”
The Human Biological Machine as a Transformational Apparatus, Flintstones
vitamins, quilted crystal jelly jar with the Great Gazoo vitamins, Mandragora
and various other plants, digital print, foil wrapper, plastic bags, labels, offcuts
of labels on reflective paper, DEET, fluorescent tape, extension cord, zip ties,
acrylic star chart, various drawings and sketches, acupuncture needles, medical
tape, stained cork yoga blocks, stained poplar, birch ply-wood
The Way These Forms Came to Be Transferred
2011
The Human Biological Machine as a Transformational Apparatus, plastic bags, various plants, digital print, labels, offcuts of labels on reflective paper, DEET, fluorescent tape, extension cord, zip ties, Flintstones vitamins, quilted crystal jelly jar with the Great Gazoo vitamins, acrylic star chart, various drawings and sketches, acupuncture needles, medical tape, stained cork yoga blocks, stained poplar, birch ply-wood
Transcend the Magician
2010
Yoga block, digital print
Certificate
2010
gold certificate stickers, graphite, and tape on cotton rag paper, reconfigured frame, acrylic sheet
Stoup
2011
Witch-hazel with alcohol in bottle, mason jar lids, gauze, brass tube, solid brass rod, plastic spoons, witch hazel, mandrake
Transcendentalist Library and The Canon of Medicine
2011
Spirit gum, artificial hair, and latex on acrylic sheet, English Yew, digital print, tinted acrylic sheets, Cosmos DVD box, SDHC memory card with 459 PDFs, mason jars, mason jar lids, gauze, pen on paper cup, alcohol, cotton bag, medical tape, fluorescent tape
A Chemical Dissolution of Possibilities
2010
Ground pomegranate peel, pomegranate seed dust, birth control placebo pill in plastic bag with gold mylar tape, plastic bags, marker, gold mylar tape and pomegranate juice on paper, brass nail, gold mylar tape on wall
42” x 9”
Peripatetic Viability
2010
Domestication of Foreign Bodies to Form Crosslinks Across Fields
2010
Goat milk, sheep skin, display light, Mason freezer jar, latex, morning glory seeds, dental bridge, acrylic sheet, mylar tape on laser prints, mylar tape, emergency blanket, wood, foam
Stem Heavy Flows
2010
Yarrow (foraged), birch, yeast (in plastic bag), vodka, Mason freezer jars, tapping buckets, halogen light, french press frame, casting latex, latex tubing, empty liquor bottle, emergency blankets, water proofing tape, shipping strap, foam, wood, twine, rock
The Last Universal, Conceived and Put to Rest
2010
Existing fluorescent fixture (lowered and 2 bulbs removed), potted pomegranate tree, avocado seeds, dried milk, vodka, mead, water proofing tape, sandbags, emergency blanket, abandoned fresco panels, wood glue mixed with tobacco, compact fluorescent bulb, wood, foam, twine
Vessels for Clarification
digital print
11” x 17”
An Esoteric School (of which traces remain)
2010
rainbow color dyed birch wood (toothpicks), spider webs, laser print
Found in Waste and Waste Places
2010
Papaya seeds, Queen Anne’s Lace tincture (foraged Daucus carota and vodka in quilted crystal jelly jar), freezer jar fragments, candle wax, plaster, compact florescent bulb, aluminum tape, mylar tape, wood, polystyrene lighting panel, extension cords, sanded floor
Site specific installation in an abandoned apartment above the gallery.
More to do with time than words
2010
Heat sealed vinyl, activated charcoal, procession poles, transportation device, divination cards, Duties of a Physician, incubator, box of secrets, cordyceps and mixed media
This piece was created in collaboration with Saul Melman for Materia at Cabinet Magazine Gallery. Materia was co-organized with Suzanne Stroebe.
Fractal Bridge Pattern
2010
Common Verbena (Verbena officinalis), wood glue, mylar tape, and graphite on paper, medical tape, and wooden pushpins coated in a wood glue and tobacco juice mixture
Fractal Bridge Pattern for Decoupling an Abstraction from Its Crystallization
2010
Foundations to Isis’s Crystal Palace in the Sky (left)
floor: Jiaogulan (Gynostemma pentaphyllum) and model airplane glue in gel cap, broken mirror, motion sickness bag w/ mylar tape, Sweet Flag (Acorus calamus), Common Verbena (Verbena officinalis),quilted crystal jelly jars, MDF sealed with a mixture of wood glue and Verbena, funnel, plastic tubing, straight valve, paper, paint
wall: Guayusa (Ilex guayusa), MDF sealed with a mixture of wood glue and Guayusa, enamel paint, wood glue, balsa wood, mylar tape, Parrot (uncertain species living in Tikal) feather (its calamus wrapped with mylar tape)
Transposition of Hermetic Elements
sanded and sprouted Blue Lotus seed (Nelumbo nucifera), halogen light, blue lily flowers (Nymphaea caerulea), Malbec wine, Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) feather (its calamus wrapped with mylar tape), quilted crystal jelly jars, Galangal (Alpinia galanga), Alpine Tumeric (Curcuma), mylar tape, balsa wood, wood glue, Jiaogulan (Gynostemma pentaphyllum), model airplane glue, paper, paint
Incarnata
floor: Passion flower (Passiflora incarnata), quilted crystal jelly jars, MDF sealed with a mixture of wood glue and Passion flower, hotplate, saucepan, extension cord, styrene lighting panels, paper, paint. wall: Guayusa (Ilex guayusa),
wall: MDF sealed with a mixture of wood glue and Guayusa, enamel paint, wood glue, mylar tape
Mechanism of Action
2009
Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), fermented Cat’s Claw (Uncaria tomentosa), and wood glue on paper
Poisons
2009
The Poisoner’s Workbench
2009
MDF, acrylic, enamel paint, wood glue mixed with Passiflora incarnata decoction, wood glue mixed with Nicotiana rustica decoction, wood glue mixed with Uncaria tomentosa decoction, wood glue jugs, tubing, brass fixtures, mason jars, steel pot with tobacco decoction, various other plants
Vessels for Transfer and Transmigration
2009
Mapacho tobacco decoction, Uña de Gato (Uncaria tomentosa) decoction, Victorian eye wash cups, MDF, wood glue and Mapacho tobacco decoction mixture, wood glue and Uña de Gato decoction mixture, enamel paint
Sometimes animals in the spirit world drink too much at one of the tobacco pools and get transported into this world.
They’ll say of him, “He has started to wander”
2009
mummy style sleeping bag, scarified blue lotus seed, blue lilly flowers and infusion, wine glasses, PVC, mixtures of wood glue and Mapacho tobacco and wood glue and Uña de Gato on acrylic, camping mat, MDF sealed with mixtures of wood glue and Mapacho tobacco, enamel paint
Nothing Without Poison: Windows, Walls
2009
Humidifier, Mapacho tobacco decoction, Arches paper, apple, wood glue mixed with Uña de Gato, enamel paint, MDF, nasal oxygen tube, sketch-book, pp. 208-209 from Pharmako/poeia with a phrase from The Book of Lambspring in graphite
Traces of the Mind
custom electronics/sound and light “mind machine,” chunks of graphite, red rosin paper, deer antlers, hand-held LEDs, and ink on paper
Traces of the Mind is a durational drawing performance in which a “mind machine” is worn by the artist in an installation environment. Pulses of light and sound change frequency, following a 14 minute sequence that simulates the brain’s frequency changes during a deep meditation experience. This also stimulates the visual cortex, creating changing patterns, which are recorded on the walls in graphite for an hour and a half.
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