My art practice is object based, materially and conceptually rooted; it has included sculpture, photography, optics, robotics systems, installation, sound and projection works, set design, and large-scale public commissions in Vancouver, Seattle, and Richmond BC.

In recent work I have been using photogrammetry to create 3D CAD models of sites of abandonment, then developing images and sculptures to manifest themes of ruin and reclamation. I aim for works that are suggestive of an unknown and precarious but possible otherness. The works and images are constructed, in a way not unlike the way that a self is constructed: fragments of environment, of materiality, of birth, of place, of chance and influence: objects like selves that are made but not conclusive. While this work crosses disciplinary boundaries it is held together by an abiding interest in the relationship of perception and consciousness as bodily experience.

My interests wander. I think of restless contemplation … of being unsettled, in a state of considering the people, situation, condition of things around me. Subject matter is less important than the conditions and consciousness in which it is framed. I am interested in artworks as the precondition for critical awareness: not as a direct statement but as an invitation to entertain uncertainty, to suggest the quest of a question: not answers so much as the next question. Still, there are threads of connection: a pleasure in making; the insistence of life force in the face of damaged existence; the ragged edges where things threaten to fall apart but do not; finding the meeting points of disparate things/people/understandings; consciousness as embodied and embedded in things.

Since completing my MFA at UCLA in 1991, I have produced and exhibited work across Canada and internationally. My background as a helicopter pilot/engineer in the mountains of British Columbia and the Yukon, and the experience of translating the navigational maps into the physical character of flight initially led to sculptural and multimedia objects and installations investigating the structure of perception as knowledge and consciousness within everyday life.

Not self-expression, though self-investment is in every project.
The relations of materiality and immateriality.
The gaps or intervals in the way things are.
Bridges between substance and ineffability.
To keep going despite the damage.