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a time to tear out, a time to mend -Ecclesiastes 3:7a
2 candle lighters with snuffer bells, glass cloche, spool of old twine, 14 hair hats, with ceiling suspension
20 x 20 x 26” 1/2022
From the initial discovery of cancer there was an overwhelming time to tear out required to save my life, and an equally overwhelming peace and hope for the time to mend. It is by the hand of God that I able to celebrate life. This celebratory artwork marks the five year anniversary of healing from stage 4 ovarian cancer. Each of these wads of hair were collected in 1/2017 during my last days of traditional post-surgery chemo. It seemed so ironic that my hair loss created little hat shaped hair forms, yet to my eyes they were solar systems of their own as well.
Rubraca, to life!
Photography on 16 Deck of 52 cards
Deck of cards: 3 1/4 x 2 1/16 x 5/8"
1950’s Folding poker table 30 x 60 x 60”
2019 - 2021
This work is the results of a year and a half of two daily photos as prays of thanks for living another day with cancer. These daily 4 blue pills are my answer to prayers in controlling cancer, Rubraca.
Two years into cancer treatments, a new chemotherapy pill, Rubraca, was just created just as my cancer returned. After having life threating reactions to the traditional chemo, this unknown new treatment was overwhelming. How sick would I be? Would this work?... But the results have been amazing and have given me life.
It is the hand we are dealt, yet it is in the cards.
present presence
12 Christmas shipped boxes cladded with newspaper comic pages during Covid global crisis from 2020 Thanksgiving, Christmas & the 2021 New Year’s tied up with package string. Stamps with “Happy Holiday” postmarks.
25 x 30 x 25’
11/2020 – 2/2021
Last Christmas this all came together: while gift boxes and the daily newspapers arrived to our front porch there existed an ironic double standard. Christmas cards stamped with postal marks with “Happy Holidays.” While In contrast the endless tragedies and also the complaints of the times. All this compared to all the hopeful comic sections looking for a new world of change: the elections, the end of the year of 2020, the hope in the end of Covid crisis, the end of seasons and the end of winter of our discontent…
All 12 packages were tied together and then opened as seen.
Spem in Alium
2 wine barrel bands, 2 years of Rubraca chemo pills bottles & medical wristbands, temple bank
26” x 26” x 6’ ceiling suspension 2021
Trust in no other/Spem in Alium.
So many acts of the Lord went before me. Miraculous surgery that saved my life, chemo that treated the cancer, additional surgeries, radiation and my BLUE Rubraca pills all work together that keep my saying yes to God and life. Praising God seems my only way of daily walking through cancer treatments. These are my hospital bracelets from the last 2 years when the cancer spread to the liver and the blue pill journey began. I had found this blue synagogue bank years ago knowing something must be done with it, and it is the same exact color of the chemo pills. Surrounded and heal by 2 wine barrel band is just how I feel.
Glorietta HOME
Photographs sliced layered and laminated with scotch tape
Copper wires, Broken ceramic house, Antique plum bob, 2 rusted clips of my father’s architectural office
28” x 2’ x 2” 2019-21
The longing for home.
There remains a huge longing for home.
In sorting through family documents I found a 1900’s photograph my father marked with the words “HOME.” My father often shared the stories of how my great grandfather built this mansion, while my grandmother and family lived in the first built carriage house. It was their home, yet it is the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado Island. We would often walk around the mansion from a far and only knew it as the hotel it became.
Since I can enter freely it feels like a bit of home.
All as I perceive where is home, here or heaven as life is fragile but heavenly home…
A Good Measure
TBA Installation: built together with public tying used units of measuring with red yard across the wall.
2020 & 2021 yet to be installed at Saddleback Church main campus
Estimated 100’ wall with Luke 6:38 written in expressive for on the wall.
The good measure…is an installation created with a public wide invitation to bring a unit of measure from their homes. Upon signing the object before tying up on the long red cord, each one will be used and unique. The yarn should be ceiling installations at full height. Detail Photos:
detail photos:
Hymns of prayers, for Ukrainians
(door installations)
2 old hymn boards, global news bureaus photos
4’ x 3’ x 2”
3/2022 - present
War begins,
we pray.
Lies grow & lives lost,
we pray.
Genocide continues,
we pray.
Helpless, yet cry out in prayers.
Remote Controllers
Installation: 60 year old playhouse ladder termite eaten, 12 bathroom scales, 2 working scales, used work gloves, ceiling suspended remote controllers.
Can be entered and walked through by stepping stones
6’ x 5’ x 9’
7/2022
it’s complicated
Sculptural installation consisting of: washed up ocean fishing rod & reel, old bucket with hole, antique thread spools, and vintage water cooler bottle
6x3x2 3/2020
2020 coronavirus crisis, deaths of so many victims, economic crisis, black and Asian citizens suffering and killed, demonstrations then riots, social distancing and isolations…
It is a tangled mess.
Old threads of all colors broken, tied up, worn…
An old tangled pole.
worn and broken.
Not the simple fishers of men.
Old hurts…
oh, oh, oh come quickly
Wall mount assemblage of found objects gathered from ten decades of family and friends’ belongings, with suspended silver spoon, all mounted on stopped clock housing.
11 x 9 x 2.5”
12/2022-2/2023 Advent to Epiphany’s end
Time captured moments, time on time, on time.
tolling of bells & chimes
spoons that fed turning levers
wine barrels bands and handles that once served well.
containers poured out, lids off.
a containers of vision, times, plays out.
poetic metaphor.
manna (what is it?)
photographs on a deck of 28 cards 3 1/4” x 2 1/16” x 5/8”
2029-2021
“What is it? The bread the Lord has given you to eat.” Exodus 16:15
As artists our life can be woven into our artworks. Thus the natural reaction to the cancer for me is to document that path. So in the past two plus years daily photos are snapped of both my morrning and evening doses wherever I am at that moment. All this is a act of thanksgiving ffor the conutation of my life. These are from the times amusing things seem to appear in charming new ways. These new views keep me finding life and daily hope in the mist of fighting cancer, while trusting God with all things and daily miracles.
It is the hand I was dealt, yet it is in the cards.