Time lapse footage of wall mural

25' x 12", wall mural, oil on wood panel paintings (various dimensions), mixed media, found objects

Site-specific wall mural, 25' x 12", acrylic paint

This installation of drawings, objects, and collages charts the reality that our lifetime is limited. Despite our constant need to predict what is going to happen in the future, the only sure thing we can expect is change. 

Charts, graphs and barometers give us hope, maybe a temporary reprieve from worry, but they also confirm that there is no guarantee...the unexpected is often lurking with the next passing cloud.

I try to accept the momentousness of the day... even the little moments--- however epic or ordinary. These are the short stories that ultimately make up a lifetime. With hope, like a cloud moving across the sky, I watch it cast a shadow or maybe bring some rain. A sun shower is welcome too.

Life is indeed happening while we are busy living it.... but the meters are always running.

Mixed Media, gouache and ink on paper, various objects

42 cards (5" x 7" each), gouache on handmade paper

The Tarot Card Project:

This project came about as I was creating cards that reflected various stages in life: pivotal moments, high and lows, or simply ordinary hours in the day. I think of them as tarot cards because I think they each have a lesson to be learned about the different stages in life. If we are very lucky, we get to experience many of these or at least hope to.

Definitions for the Tarot Deck:

I asked a group of friends in Santa Cruz (where I live) to write about the images I had painted. They were asked to write what they thought the card might be about and what lesson could be gleaned from it. Some friends wrote poems, others had advice, like a fortune teller, a good friend, or a therapist. The definitions are sometimes humorous, some are serious and most, in my opinion, are prophetic.

Visitors at the Riverside Museum were encouraged to participate in this dialogue and invent new definitions for the tarot.

Participants were asked to make a wish and write it on a paper tag. They placed their wish at the intersection of their "Actual Age" (the age they are) and their "Emotional Age" (the age they feel).