"Grandmother Pine Skin Dress" Earth Skin made from an old growth Ontario pine on Gold Lake in the Kawarthas. Vulcanized latex, gauze, fragments of bark, leaves, earth, embedded insects, etc.
Brooklyn, NY, 2007. The "Ark" sculpture reconfigured as a "Walking Boat Whale" pierced by utility pipes as an environmental art installation commenting on climate change issues between Canada and the US.
Steel sculptures commissioned by the City of Kelowna, BC, 2006. Before installation. Based on whale, fish and canoe skeletons. Ribs are like musical bar scores.
13' x 15' oil bar drawing incorporating fifteen architectural plan drawings of Queen West renovations and piping systems with a Dr. Seuss style imaginary water system like an urban song line beneath the city.
This proposed project would involve canoeing into areas Trudeau canoed in, making pieces off the trees, which would become a gallery/museum exhibition.
It is possible to make pieces off the original trees the Group of Seven painted. The intention is to draw awareness to changes in the environment since the Trudeau era and the time when the Group of Seven painted.
The proposed project was approved by Fort York and Toronto Temporary Projects in 2007. Delayed by the Bridges Department. Involves suspending three sculptural boat forms beneath the Gardiner Expressway, Toronto, ON.
This proposal for the Toronto Waterfront/Pan Am Culture 2015, during the Pan Am Games, involves an outdoor museum of sorts made of cargo containers "pulled" by the "Ark" sculpture, crewed by water-metre "pirates" made from water mains valves.
The containers would have murals of endangered species with a focus on aquatic animals painted by Toronto muralists. In them would be Earth Skins made from old growth trees and old wooden team-rowing boats from the Toronto Waterfront.
