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I enjoy experimenting with material artifacts that may be animated via natural means.

photo by composer Caroline Mallonée

My mobiles (properly pronounced as mo•BEELs; altho I often say MO•bulls) are four-dimensional.

absolute space and time frame: XYZ times movement (it’s not possible to work in curved spacetime).

Chaos, Two Sides and Soar (early works)

Culture (Southern)

Series (inspired by Alexander Calder)

Apprentice (inspired by Tim Prentice )

Double Rainbow (Agrippa Kellum original)

The original Spike (inspired by Agrippa Kellum)

Sun ( neon was my first sculptural art form)

Innocence (child breaking mirror with red ball)

Order (on loan)

Siren (put beeswax in your ears)

Zelda (black-booted mermaid)

Feelings (self-explanatory)

Shiver (so cold, the mirror shattered)

Collective (Borg cubic swarm configuration)

Copperhead (NFS)

Diamondback (the Moccasin sold before ever being photographed)

Leda (and the Swan) video

Aphrodite (in her snakeskin boots)

Helen (of Troy)

Earth Angel (just a costume, really)

Trust (misplaced reinterpretation of a myth)

Symbiosis prototype (school of fish safe amongst lily pads) full-scale video

Plenty (response to bowl-shaped scrap)

Primary Lovers (three-way balance carried three generations)

Abully (friendly bulldog with mechanical and agricultural references)

Teef and Sphere (both made and last seen in Cinque Terra)

Three-pod (gift for my Mom)

Freedom (moonlit sailboat wake)

Eyepod (original evolutionary study)

Organic (or maybe this one came first, really hard to say…)

Alexandria (interpretation of Alexander Spring midday without swim goggles)

B (Mangrove hummock honeybee)

Moby Dick (upturned boat hull as roof study)

Pair of earrings (one of these is one of a kind)

Spike (and the real Spike)

Jersey Devil (with multiple appendages) video snowed on

Tails (split-tail mermaid wearing sunglasses) video

Ferdeltia (fertile Mississippi delta)

Virginiana (award-winning speciation)

Red One (sold to raise funds for lamella pavilion – thanks Milo)

Xyloflute (adjustable resonances)

Binary’s Kids (Kids Count auction piece)

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