Work Statement

Steel Ice & Stone is a 9-photograph sound and image installation. The large—4 x 5 foot—images are of pieces of steel, ice and stone. The sound is the melding of machine sounds with birdcalls. The sensor electronics unite the interplay of the media by delivering the sound byte only when the viewer is there to experience it.

The combination of media conveys how I process the events of my life and times: the still image holds the moment captured in time, while the sound weaves through that moment in the present. This creates a layered experience conveying my thoughts and emotions balancing presence and time.

The expression of the piece is that loss, and the emotions it evokes, are both mutable and indelible, hence the still images and the morphing of the sound from the unforgiving sounds of machinery to the gentle warble of a birdsong.

The nuance of recollection is very powerful to me. Sensual recall of an event plays heavily in my work. 


Peripherally absorbing the work by sauntering through the suspended images is the breath of the installation. It’s a moment of connection and introspection I move to share with others.