In combining disciplines, my art installations and performance art connect people in meaningful ways, creating spaces that provide an immersive and wondrous experience. Most often the public has no idea what they are walking into. I like that sense of adventure. It awakens our curiosity.

The Ice Carnival
Tickets for a song! You literally sing your way into this event, earning you tickets for carnival games, most involving fire. The Carnival took place for 4 years in the deep cold of January and was accomplished thanks to a team of dedicated Carnies who built and ran their own games. We’ll do it again upon request/funding. It doesn’t need to be in January. (see more pics)

The Lifeguard

To highlight the idea of safety, I wanted to be a Lifeguard at an indoor beach party. Sand, umbrellas, towels, beach chairs, DJ and a lifeguard stand were brought into Credabel Coral Gallery, having coral and fish, to create that beach-like feel.

Post-it notes were attached to clipboards with “I feel safe when…” on them. Attendants completed the statement, posting their answers around the gallery. The topic generated conversations about safety, which created a safe environment. (see their answers)

Pulse
After years of practicing meditation, it was time to push the boundaries by taking it public. Pulse was a 2-hour moving meditation that allowed me to bring surprising elements to Creatinova Art Fair.

Over 1 week I prepared the tools for the performance and meditated over every step in the process; water, jug, cups, garments and location. The goal was to remain in a meditative state from exiting my car in the parking garage at the beginning of the performance to getting back into my car at the end.

The premise was simple; to fill 200 red cups with purified water and place them on the ground wherever felt right. This created a red line, a pulse, through Creatinova. Each cup was filled and placed before returning to the jug to fill another. After all of the cups were filled and placed I began to give them to whosever energy pulled me. One by one all of the cups were gifted, leading me back to the beginning of my journey. (more info)

Blacklight Garden Party
This free event was a great way to invite the public to play together thanks to a Regional Art (REGI) grant. Alexia Lalande and I prepared several different ultraviolet environments in New London, CT. An aquarium, estuary, maze with interactive sculpture, dance party with glowing hoop performers and a bar gave attendants plenty to do on a chilly night in January. Special thanks to Aly Maderson-Quinlog and J. Curlando.
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New London Drone Orchestra
Music has always been in my life, whether playing instruments, singing or writing songs. I sang and played with my church, in theaters and casinos, and with bands ranging from jazz and hip-hop to classic pop/rock and experimental.

Then I met Kip Wilson, creative director of the New London Drone Orchestra. The group is improvisational and meditational. We focus on balanced ambient sound that is mostly devoid of key or time signature yet in alliance with the group. What exactly does that mean? Take a listen. I joined the crew in February 2019.

Lobster Bash
When the Hygienic Art Gallery holds its XXX (30th) annual exhibit boasting “No judge, no jury, no censorship, no fees”, what do you do? I build a 9’ piñata of the Gallery’s mascot and fill it with sex toys.

On opening night the public was invited to line up and take a whack at the Lobster. Many lined up, and even more just watched, as the Lobster was liberated of its booty and exploded onto the crowd. It was advertised as a free, all-age event with parental discretion advised. Thank you to Locomotion Video and Alliance for Living for stuffing the Lobster!

During our lives each of us has witnessed a wide range of emotions and been thrown into various situations. We have all suffered trials and enjoyed achievements. It is through our shared experiences that we are able to relate to others. The endless world we have to explore, the beliefs we have about our origin and purpose, those times we feel alone in the dark and those times we are able to connect profoundly with another being.

Taking the vantage point of the witness, I studied migration as it relates to our life’s journey. Meditations on where we go and what we leave behind, the Migration series captures temporal realities in physiological landscapes. Sculpted from encaustic, cotton, mohair, leather, shells, wood and acrylic, each work takes on one aspect of our shared existence.

The Migration series continues to unfold as inspiration fuels its creation.

This collection features what I call Energetic Portraits. Each portrait is a snapshot of an image that appeared during an energy work session. This is what energy fields look like in my mind’s eye, as if color were superimposed onto someone. Often the image and color provide helpful healing information.

Blue Egg
This portrait captures the moment of witnessing the promise of a baby boy. The energy was pulling my hands toward a place on my patient’s lower back, and when I focused my awareness there this image appeared. I asked the patient how she felt about children and she described how long she and her partner had been trying to conceive. The message that came was that she was either pregnant already or would be shortly. Two weeks later the pregnancy was confirmed. They later gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

Triple Warmer
This portrait reveals traumatic events recorded by the body in the first 3 chakras. A deep severing cut from first to third chakras (sexual assault) was causing severe depression in the patient. The split energy centers were “stitched back together” in only one session using a technique called psychic surgery, causing profound changes in the patient. This patient was often disheveled, unkempt, a wonderful person, yet lost. When I saw them a month later I hardly recognized them. They were positively glowing, had a healthy appearance and were making major changes in life to achieve their goals.

Shin
Sometimes I work on a patient who’s energy feels great and not much stands out. This was the case with this portrait, except for one thing. I kept hitting this barbell shaped blockage in both lower legs, yet the shape had no message for me. When asked, the patient told me they had metal plates over their shins.

Torso Series
The next five images show what healing looks like to me. This patient was literally suffering a broken heart. While focusing on the heart center the first image came up, telling me this area was blocked on many levels. As we continued to work on the heart center the patient gently sobbed and the colors changed. Slowly the black, red and orange gave way to green as the patient released an immense amount of emotional trauma. They said they felt so much lighter and freer when they left. They had unloaded trauma carried for over 40 years.

Chakras
Torso and Triple Warmer were the first sessions to prove to me that there was more to chakra colors than a rainbow running through the body. I had always seen these colors on yoga posters and thought it was a beautiful way to explain energy centers. Experience has shown me that these colors mean so much more, though I’m still learning how they correlate with the body and emotion.

The Future
I continue to make 2 & 3D work in this series as inspirations arise. These images are created digitally and printed on demand. Please use the form on the art page to inquire.

Yes, you are looking at real spider webs, blended with encaustic, pigment, graphite, charcoal, pastel, acrylic and plaster. They have been harvested locally and permanently affixed to rigid substrates.

Since the early oughts I’ve built a relationship with spiders. It began after discovering several large bites on my legs one morning. It was then I noticed all the webs in our gardens. Although they were not likely the ones that bit me, it began a relationship that continues today.

You cannot simply take a web. It must be offered. A spider will leave a location if disturbed, so I work to create an environment that attracts them and entices them to stay. When they thrive they often build a new web instead of eating the old one. These discarded webs are what I am most attracted to using in artwork.

Each web only lasts a day or two before the elements tear it apart so I need to work quickly, spontaneously, using whatever I have in the moment. What you see is a sampling of works potentially available for harvesting.

These works are original photographs of graffiti and street scenes in Italy that have been digitally manipulated and delicately transferred onto encaustic, a combination of beeswax and tree resin.

The series pays homage to favorite views while traveling in Italy and to the work of unsung heroes who take graffiti to a level far beyond tagging. Grazie!

These works are available in many sizes on many surfaces. Use the form on the art page to inquire further.

These works show the range of materials and expressions that found their way into my studio, mind and hands.

Exotic Birds of Prey: 96 Hour Flight
This work was made in 96 hours over 5 days. Each tiny triangle of encaustic covered fabric was individually fused to the panel using the woodgrain as a design template. (Video on YouTube)

Demon Family Tree
My response to the the Seven Deadly Sins. In the early 1700’s each mortal sin was paired with a Demon’s name.

Mandatory Meditaiton
A strange and ethereal experience expressed as this drawing, a short story and a sculpture.

Memory Container
The story of my life so far. Hand-stamped memories captured within the rings of a willow tree stump.

Bonaire
Oil painting of a salt mine plantation.

Battle of the Sexes
Using my grandmothers vintage silk robe to depict the complexities of male and female romantic tactics over the ages.

Dansha
Completed during my Bulgarian Residency using whatever materials I could find. Dansha was one of the many wonderful women living in the village. She’s always in the press.

Keeping Abreast
A collaborative work beginning with drawings by Michael Bergeron, watercolors added by Don Eccleston, encaustic casts by myself and completed with collage by Eleanore Tamsky for our group exhibition.

7 Levels of Heaven
An homage to the Alhambra’s Hall of the Abencerrajes. I almost passed out when I saw a photo of its ceiling.

Earth Spirit Maria
Some people die and it’s as if their energy and spirit instantly disappear. Others linger and are remembered every day. This is for Maria, who is never far from my thoughts.

The Guild
Meditation brings all sorts of interesting thoughts, like these beings just hanging out in the cosmos, you know, time traveling.