I Always Cheat at Croquet 1986 was installed with life size hand colored photo cut outs, a double wide hand colored photo mural back ground image, growing sod, a video monitor with me cheating by rolling the ball to a more desirable position by the wicket, and the croquet set.

The mural in the back shows my friends scowling at me for cheating. It is a piece based on truth. Coloring on the first photo cut out is intense. The pair of figures are less intense. The mural was lightly colored to add to the chiaroscuro in the entire piece.

I Always Cheat at Croquet 1986 was installed with life size hand colored photo cut outs, a double wide hand colored photo mural back ground image, growing sod, a video monitor with me cheating by rolling the ball to a more desirable position by the wicket, and the croquet set.

The mural in the back shows my friends scowling at me for cheating. It is a piece based on truth. The mural was lightly colored to add to the chiaroscuro in the entire piece.

Photosynthesis 1989 was a growing sculpture at the Boulder Art Center. I was a bit confused to be asked to join a group of sculptors to do a piece in the front lawn of the Center. Since I was known as a photographer who did installations with my photographs, I decided to use the word photo in my piece. I had the letters fabricated out of polystyrene and planted them with clover seeds in good potting soil. Over the time the show was up, the process of photosynthesis took place by the clover growing and the piece disappearing.

Photosynthesis 1989 was a growing sculpture at the Boulder Art Center. I was a bit confused to be asked to join a group of sculptors to do a piece in the front lawn of the Center. Since I was known as a photographer who did installations with my photographs, I decided to use the word photo in my piece. I had the letters fabricated out of polystyrene and planted them with clover seeds in good potting soil. Over the time the show was up, the process of photosynthesis took place by the clover growing and the piece disappearing.

For Amnesty International's 25th Anniversary, a group of artists selected a case to reference by making a piece. Mine was of a father of 9 children who was a architect of low income housing in Chile. When he made public the graft in building this big project, he was disappeared by the government.

My piece was built to reference Chile, a country that is narrow and long with mountains running its length. The platform was made to be walked upon but it rocked on purpose to resemble the shaking of the ground that often happens because of the many earth quakes that often happen in the land. While you are on the platform walking toward the tall cylinder at the end, you are on a slanted surface with the rocking and you cannot safely reach the mountains to steady your pace. All the angles are disorienting as you approach the cylinder with a video monitor laying on its back at the bottom telling the story. The Piece is called When Someone Disappears, It's Like They Go Into a Black Hole. 1986

Fashions for Bureaucrats 1986-87: Fly Paper Kimono is made of fly paper on top of a very early computer drawing. It was made to reference my dean who lost everything you sent him multiple times. I was acting chair at the time. I would notice his car was weighed down in the trunk. When he sold his car, it was filled with our memos.

It was a kimono of flypaper so everything would stick to it. He was not a fan of this piece.

Fashions for Bureaucrats 1986-87: Please Return Call Kimono. This one is a black silk kimono that I made and covered with post it notes of the calls that would come in while I was teaching or at meetings. Our mostly bad secretary, would post my door full of phone numbers but often no name or reason to return call.

Fashions for Bureaucrats 1986-87: White Board Kimono. This piece referenced all the procedures one was supposed to follow to get action completed on tenure, budget, changes to catalog, passing classes through curriculum processes. In one place the procedure was circular because for many things administrative, it seemed as though you just went in circles and nothing happened.

Rain of Terror 1986: video with a tornado of confidential memos saved for only 2 months while Acting Chair. The video is of a paper recycling center near campus.

Rain of Terror: 1986 video with a tornado of confidential memos saved for only 2 months while Acting Chair. The video is of a paper recycling center near campus.

While I was in my rotating chair term, I made a series of pieces where I assumed the persona of a chair.

She was short and fat, but instead of exercising, she installed a fun house mirror 1987 is this piece. I used a chair that I covered with gesso to stiffen, I stamped the words around the seat, and inset very early computer drawing into the cushion, and made a fun house mirror that when the viewer stood by would make them appear tall and thin.

While I was in my rotating chair term, I made a series of pieces where I assumed the persona of a chair.

She was short and fat, but instead of exercising, she installed a fun house mirror 1987 is this piece. I covered with gesso to stiffen, I stamped the words around the seat, and inset very early computer drawing into the cushion, and made a fun house mirror that when the viewer stood by would make them appear tall and thin.

The Granite Chair, 1987 is set inside caution tape, the chair sits on half eggs and has the springs coming through the seat.

The chair was covered with gesso on the velvet, then painted to look like granite.

A Book of Family Tales, 1987, video installation piece where you look through a tunnel book to a very small screen to watch three family stories. Artist book, starry sky interior to tall column opening with sculptural elements.

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Fate or Fortune: Was it fate or fortune that I was born where I was born, when I was born to do what I do and be who I am? 1989

This exhibit was hung like a diagrammed sentence from English grammar class. The main center line were the framed images and boxes that were the main part of the sentence. The images above the main sentence were the family picture modifiers placing me in my family of 8 girls and 4 boys. The images below the main part of the sentence were the modifiers from fate, gambling, chance.

Boxes often with hands are a part of the main part of the sentence.

The images are very early computer pieces made with my amiga computer and a very bad HP color computer. Large images were pieced. The color was not archival.

This is the beginning section

Fate or Fortune: Was it fate or fortune that I was born where I was born, when I was born to do what I do and be who I am? 1989

This exhibit was hung like a diagrammed sentence from English grammar class. The main center line were the framed images and boxes that were the main part of the sentence. The images above the main sentence were the family picture modifiers placing me in my family of 8 girls and 4 boys. The images below the main part of the sentence were the modifiers from fate, gambling, chance.

Boxes often with hands are a part of the main part of the sentence.

The images are very early computer pieces made with my amiga computer and a very bad HP color computer. Large images were pieced. The color was not archival.

This is the middle section.

Fate or Fortune: Was it fate or fortune that I was born where I was born, when I was born to do what I do and be who I am? 1989

This exhibit was hung like a diagrammed sentence from English grammar class. The main center line were the framed images and boxes that were the main part of the sentence. The images above the main sentence were the family picture modifiers placing me in my family of 8 girls and 4 boys. The images below the main part of the sentence were the modifiers from fate, gambling, chance.

Boxes often with hands are a part of the main part of the sentence.

The images are very early computer pieces made with my amiga computer and a very bad HP color computer. Large images were pieced. The color was not archival.

This is the end section.

Rock, Scissors, Paper box from main sentence of Fate or Fortune installation.

Roll The Dice box from the main sentence of the Fate or Fortune installation.

When You Were Born, Where You Were Born box from main sentence of Fate or Fortune installation.

Little black, white and gray babies attached by springs to various places around the globe.

Boy/Girl Yes/No box from main sentence of Fate or Fortune installation.

Stars/Moon box from main sentence of Fate or Fortune installation.

Where Ideas Come From 1996-97 installation with 13x19" panels floating on wires away from the wall.

Where Ideas Come From 1996-97 flat small image2

Entrance to the journey 1998 installation exhibition

Inside the journey exhibition

Sculpture and large grided print inside the journey exhibition

Return to Life image from the journey exhibition

Sorrow and Repair 1999-2000 installation with printed image and small sculpture of a remake of an instrument for measuring humidity (hygrometer) found at the History of Science Museum in Florence, Italy. This instrument measures the weight of tears on the tissue. When the tissues are wet, they weigh more and the pointer moves to sorrow. When the tissues are dry, they weigh less and the pointer goes to repair. When the dial is in the middle, it indicates living with the pain.

This piece was made in response to my father's death. The words on the print are:

sorrow    repair

sadness    peace

loneliness    remembrance

missing    missing

The house on the instrument signify me and my family. It was our house.

Sorrow/Repair print with an image of my father at the entrance of the church.

The remade hygrometer instrument shows the balance point at the peak of the house. Stamped into the bronze part of the instrument are the words Sorrow and Repair.

Here is the hygrometer from the History of Science Museum in Florence, Italy. A pile of felt discs hang on the end of the balance with the pointer indicating the amount of humidity. It was my inspiration for my own instrument.

Wisdometer installed with digital print, wire objects, plastic shoe, pedometer, wooden shadow boxes with objects.

The further you go in life, the wiser you are supposed to become. There is a check list, and a guide to moving forward.

Wisdometer installed with digital print, wire objects, plastic shoe, pedometer, wooden shadow boxes with objects.

The further you go in life, the wiser you are supposed to become. There is a check list, and a guide to moving forward.

Wisdometer installed with digital print, wire objects, plastic shoe, pedometer, wooden shadow boxes with objects.

The further you go in life, the wiser you are supposed to become. There is a check list, and a guide to moving forward.

Wisdometer installed with digital print, wire objects, plastic shoe, pedometer, wooden shadow boxes with objects.

The further you go in life, the wiser you are supposed to become. There is a check list, and a guide to moving forward.

Wisdometer installed with digital print, wire objects, plastic shoe, pedometer, wooden shadow boxes with objects.

The further you go in life, the wiser you are supposed to become. There is a check list, and a guide to moving forward.