At Civitella I produced ‘raw’ video footage for two works. The first was my own ‘home-movie’ footage of the castle (people and place) as well as other events in Italy. One such event took place in Città di Castello. It was an award ceremony for Umbrian residents who...
I’m a night owl. Western culture doesn’t consider the nocturnal laborer’s efforts especially virtuous. Benjamin Franklin summed the prevailing sentiment toward those who rise late (however noble the struggle with art may have been the night before): “Up, sluggard, and...
I made “The Dress” my first piece of dried jasmine flowers in 1994. I combined the flowers into a 160 x 85 cm piece with the help of cotton thread and needle and then made a dress after a pattern. At first I wanted to wait and fix the decay of flowers by the way of...
I created 2 groups of work during the blessedly long days at Civitella. One was a series of glazed hand-built ceramic vases, the forms of which were not pre-meditated, but rather conjured up in the moment. I have always been energized by the conflation and dissolving...
