Weatherworks series: ‘23 | ‘22 | ‘21 | ‘20 | ‘19 | ‘18 | ‘17 | ‘16 | ’15 | ‘14

Weatherwork 2023. Thirty foot+ installation on snow. Click HERE for signed editioned prints

Earthworks, weatherworks, land art, snow auras, ash collages, ice installations, public art … ephemeral artworks lasting only hours, created in and destroyed by nature (reverse anthropocene.) Made with found weather: wind, snow, rain, ice, water…

Found branches and ice sculpture; drifted and glitched work on snow using found flora, tablecloths, and cardboard; harvested icicles; a frost painting, using breath, a bee hive, a song.

Ice crystals as discrete units like a pixels in a jpeg. Post-weather, these works only exist digitally and the hardcopy works have an ambigious perspectival depth.
(These works, done on a frozen snowy lakebed, eventually led to the Shift/Drift series of paintings, which are large canvas and smaller works on paper done en plein air in various locations worldwide.)

BLOG POST on the ‘24 Weatherwork story: CLICK HERE

EXCERPT: The newly frozen bay, somewhat snow white, sounds out as it warps — ringing, and singing, like an ice siren, alarm and allure. I jump, stomp, and kick down while walking onto this winter canvas. I’m holding a broom sideways — if I fall through, maybe it’ll save me. Should I be wearing a life jacket?

Every December I make enormous weatherworks. The process is physically demanding — a duel, a sport, a dance — due to the difficult conditions (which are different every year). This art is always in cooperation with acquiescent to nature; i.e. this year, for the first time in ten…. CLICK TO READ MORE