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How Things Pile Up
  HOW THINGS PILE UP oil on drywall, ©2001

  A series with the human head as subject and focusing on the potential for conformity when groups become tight knit and individuals begin
  to loose their ability to think for themselves.

  HOW THINGS PILE UP
  Head one: they didn't see it coming
  Head two: they tried to balance on something solid
  Head three: they slowly learned to accept their postions
  Head four: they huddled together so that they would not blow away
  Head five: they struggled for a view for what would happen next
  Head six: they discovered that knowing would take much effort
  Head seven: they loved one another and could not be torn apart
  Head eight: they began to understand that the power was unique
  Head nine: they each moved halfway to the center
  Head ten: they saw a narrow passage and formed a line
  Head eleven: they found that there was no room to think
  Head twelve: they noticed their dependency and navigated to break free
  Head thirteen they got caught up in who was going to be first
  Head fourteen: they learned that they had competing ideas
  Head fifteen: they believed that their thoughts were the same
  Head sixteen: they parted and saw that it was difficult
  Head seventeen: they left and then a quietness was experienced
  Head eighteen: they appeared to be confused by the unexpected
  Head nineteen: they experienced a situation differently, thinking it was common
  Head twenty: they conformed together and ignored one another
  Head twenty-one: they were weighted down by their emotions
  Head twenty-two: they took a clue and began to hover about





































































PAINTING
1991-1995
1996-2000
2001-2005
2006-2010
2011-2014

MINI-SERIES
1990 Peppers, Seeds, and Rotting Vegetables
1996 What I painted when I could not paint
2005 For the Birds
2007 Butterflies are free
2011 The Year The Permafrost Softened

WORKS ON PAPER
1988-1989 Chairs
1989-1990 Umbrellas
1991-1998
1997 The Chase
1998 Dismantled Sketchbooks
1999 Ragdale Series
2000-2004 Collage Art
2002 Charcoal
2000-2004 Figure Drawing
2000-2005 Project Art
2000 Spinning Plates
2002 Fan Collages
2001 Screaming In Places Where I Can't Be heard
2004 Wonderscapes
2005-2006 The Story of the Universe
2008 Buddha Was Here
2009 Life On Hold (NFS)
2010-2016 The Demandments (NFS)

MIXED MEDIUM
1995-1998 Sectioned panels
1997-1998 White Paintings and Furry Work
1998 Red Dot Series
2001-2009 Wax, Wire, Gold, Globe, and Glass
2001 How Things Pile Up
2002 Retablos, oil on metal

OBJECT ART
2002-present Project Items
Historic-present Fane Items
1550-1560 Ancestral Figure Drawings

INSTALLATION
2002-2016 Paradise
2006 Negative to Positive
2007-present Four walls*
2008 Found
2010-present Teacups for Reading Tea Leaves
2011-present Waterworks*
2000-present My Crates

PERFORMATIVE
2004 White Sands
2006 Blue Clouds

LIBRARY OF BOOKS 2000-present
Painting Inventory
Book of Days
Whitewash
The Ragdale Book
Brain Book
Ransom Magazine
Box of Tears
Pocket Full of Cries
Europe
Mongolia
Flower Book
Retablos: How I Got From Here to Here
The Fane Pamphlet
Scroll of Influence
The Story of Red Trees
Red Trees History
Red Trees Chronicle
Red Trees Prayerbook
Red Trees Kakemono
Book of Leaves
Elemental Communion
Found: Journals from the future
Symbol Book
Books of Sense
Organ Origin
The Wedding Program
The Wedding Book
I Must Go
Ladder Book*
Book of Stairs*
The Studio Visit Playbill*
Flower Book 2*
...continued

STUDIO PRACTICE
Studio 1: Dayton and Blackhawk
Studio 2: Hubbard and House
Project scouting and on location
Works in progress
Exhibits, happenings, homes
Studio clippings and announcements
Artist

WORLD RIVERS PROJECT overview
World Rivers: Curtain
World Rivers: Participants
World Rivers: Rivers
World Rivers: Cloth
Visit the River Log

TEXT ARCHIVE
Artwork
Installation
Books

* documentation is forthcoming
This archive is a creative history spanning two decades.
The documentation is comprised of many technological
formats ranging from slides, 4x5s, photographs, and
straddles the introduction of digital formatting of the time.
The goal was to preserve images, whether high or low resolution.






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