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I have a collection of rocks, driftwood and rusted metal found at the beach and desert. When I begin a new

piece I normally start first to construct with natural objects.

The idea of using twigs came from driving the freeway in the winter time. I noticed a lot of brush showing

patterns of very fine twigs. I began to think that I could cut them top, bottom and side to form a cube, so using dried brush from my yard I made a cube shape. Then I made the same size cube with blue acrylic lighting the

inside with blue neon. My thought was to represent tree and water.

Los Angeles has many Australian eucalyptus. A friend has a very old tree with beautiful long leaves. I collected

a bunch of these leaves and began putting them together with glue. I was trying to see how tall a shape I could

construct this way. It came to look like a cone shaped ear of corn. I made the same shape with red fabric and

red neon inside placing this on top of the eucalyptus leaf cone.

I found a large black stone at the beach which had broken into three pieces. I cast one of the piece with red resin

fitting red neon inside then putting the real stone and resin piece together like the original stone.

I picked up a dry leaf from a tree in my yard. So using this leaf shape enlarged I made a constructed with wire

and fabric but had technical problems and I began losing interest. Time passed then a close friend developed

cancer and the Iraq war started. I looked again at the leaf piece and wanted to finish it. This piece is about a

leaf falling from the tree. Over time this process of making a piece made me feel a little better. After two years

my friend died and the war is still on.