Eye For An Eye

Plum Island driftwood, metal, chain

sold

Picking Up Pieces

Spectacle Island driftwood base, metal blade, weasel skull

sold

Armor

Over the past couple years I've enjoyed exploring the stunning landscape around Bass River in Yarmouth. This is one of the results.

29"l x 7"w x 2.5"d

sold, available for exhibit only

Table with a Round Wall

I'm intrigued by the concept of transparency within a society that loves building walls. Comprised of wheel parts, old pipes, and various elements of abandoned projects, 'Round Walls' denotes movement and work towards openness while maintaining rigidity. The three steel panels are hinged together so they can move apart from the circular wall which is attached to the base. The box is meant to be opened, and these walls are meant to be taken down.

33"h x 25"w x 26"d

not for sale

Descending Circles

A metal grinder, antique plate, can top, washers, gun round, and bolts all line up in colorful descension along charred and scoured driftwood. While circles represent unity, balance, and continuum, most of these objects are created without such intention--yet they interact perfectly.

33"l x 5.5"w x 2.5"d

sold

Antique India Lamp

This lamp is comprised of various antique, Indian candlesticks that I disassembled then welded together. It's finished with a vintage, frosted glass dome and antique yellow shade.

28"h x 15"w

not for sale

Cityscape

There's an exhilaration that coincides with the first glimpse of a city's skyline. Representative of infinite potential and experiences, a skyline appears orderly and definitive, yet once inside its limits it morphs into something completely untamed. This is an homage to the city that graced the horizon outside my bedroom window in Brooklyn.

34" x 3" x 22"

$1000

Vapors

Corroded by acid and time, the top sheet of metal supports an old pipe I found while wandering the beaches of Peak's Island, Maine. Initially, it appeared to be a hollowed log with seaweed and vines emerging from all its crevices. Curling fragile tendrils of metal from a Cambridge construction site, I attempted to recreate the initial state in which I found it.

 40" x 8" x 25"

$1500

Star Agate

This hanging sculpture was created as a blessing for a friend's infant daughter. Coiled around driftwood is wisteria vine which represents reaching and growth. The small rose quartz stones sitting along the wire are for the heart chakra and inner peace, the star is for inspiration, and the agate is to imbue truth.

Driftwood Chandelier

The ambiguity of shadows fascinates me, and I love creating environments based on them rather than the actual light source. Here, pieces of driftwood from the New England coastline have been drilled together to cast an undefined pattern.

24"w x 26"h

custom piece available upon commission

Mermaid

This abstraction was inspired by my life-long adoration of mermaids. The movie "Splash" came out in the mid 80's, and being an impressionable child, I decided to take salt baths in the hopes of growing my own fins. Years later, sans fins, the ocean still holds a powerful mysticism over me.

The fin is Nova Scotia sea kelp. Once dried, it became hard enough to drill through. The breasts are metal from MIT's Media Lab construction site, and the driftwood is from Plum Island. Additional materials: wire, chain, beads.


$200

Chicken Coop Light

While again playing around with light and shadows, I created this with chicken wire, thin plywood, and a simple hanging light.

11" wide x 13.5" long

sold

Table With a View

While driving around my old stomping grounds I noticed some people replacing the windows on a Victorian house. Since they were putting them by the curb, they were more than happy to send this one away with me. The birch logs came from the tree in front of my childhood home--one of the smaller trunks snapped in an ice storm and had to be taken down. With the help of my father, I combined someone's old bedroom window with the view from another.

17.5" x 28" x 54"

custom piece available upon commission

Unity Talisman

The hand-hammered copper sphere encompassing this talisman is a symbol of unity. The sterling silver butterfly = transformation, the wooden diamond from which it hangs = earth, the silver pendulum = time, the Buddha pendant represents peace, love, and forgiveness, and the vertebrae resting on top of it is a relic of all living things.

sold

Pieces of Time

This necklace is an amalgam of clock parts and brass hardware. I smashed open some old watches, and the result is a physical manifestation of my constant challenge with time.

commissioned piece available

Southwestern Turquoise

These three necklaces lay snugly around each other in varying lengths. The turquoise is from the southwestern part of the US as well as Mexico. The bone, which has been identified as cow, I discovered in the dunes of Cape Cod.

commissioned piece available

Web Talisman

Recycled copper and brass chains are pieced together with a side closure. From the 17" chain hangs an antique estate key, mahogany Brazilian seeds, a painted brass star, and a mercury colored metal web.

sold

Victorian Azure

This necklace is made with a combination of antique & vintage brass chains held together with Italian glass beads. Victorian pendant suspended from recycled metal hardware.


sold

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 Full Pine Moons was featured here on Etsy today*

Dancing Grinders

This is representational of an animal gracefully leaping over potential death. The antique meat grinders are suspended beneath the wooden body with small flecks of turquoise resting on top of them. When hung away from a wall, the pieces all move playfully beneath the creature due to the give of the wire coil at the top.

sold

Snail Synapses

 
Snail paths in the sands of Peaks Island, Maine.

February 2010

I did this painting while imagining what my synapses might look like during the actual creative process itself. Watching snails slowly making their way across the sand in Maine a couple years later, I was amazed by how similar the patterns were.

18" x 24"
 
not for sale

Tarnished 1962

To represent peaceful balance, I wrapped the top piece of Nova Scotia driftwood in seaweed which I soaked then dried to conform to its shape. Beneath are two delicate pieces from Cape Cod secured with coconut shell beads, and at the bottom hangs a penny from 1962.

11" x 17"

sold

For the Birds

Without meaning to, I started collecting all these quadrilaterals containing perfect circles. They decreased perfectly in size and reminded me of tiered bird houses. The top one is Nova Scotia driftwood, and the others are rusted metal bolts and washers suspended from wire filament.


sold

Woodland Looking Glass Series - X

This antique mirror is enveloped in twisting, gnarly roots and driftwood from Cape Cod.

sold

Woodland Looking Glass Series - IX

Sea flower mirror made with driftwood from Nova Scotia and Cape Cod.


sold

Woodland Looking Glass Series - VI

Cape Cod driftwood

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Woodland Looking Glass Series - V

Plum Island and Nova Scotia driftwood are carefully laid out around this antique leaded glass mirror to display the contrasts of each piece.

17" x 24"



sold

Woodland Looking Glass Series - IV

This mirror is comprised of driftwood from Cape Cod.

sold