Transformation: Testimony of Existence in Time and Space

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A couple of years ago I decided to make art both in and out of my studio - out as in outside ... on the earth, as in Earth Art (See Robert Smithson, Ana Mendieta, etc), but at the same time I never stopped painting ... I considered artmaking as seasonal ...

Here I am washing a stone for my Action to Object installation. In this installation I have a stone cairn juxtaposed to a series of 12 average sized formal paintings. Behind the cairn and facing the paintings at an angle is an old cement bench (see below). To the side are 24 small panels, docu-photographs, on the wall - images from the Alley Sites intervention ...

In the photo-painting above I have juxtaposed myself in front of my 2 German Shepherds ... Later, the shepherd on the left, Zuzu, dies, as the one on the right, Luka, becomes the fixation of my newest eco-enviro-intervention, The Everyday Act of Existence, which can be seen at Randolph-Macon College, Flippo Gallery, Artists & Writers, February 18 thru April 20, 2007 ...

As part of the Artists & Writers exhibition you are invited to the Reading, 3:00 pm, April 15th, Randolph-Macon College, Topping Room of the Old Chapel, with a reception to follow in the gallery ...