One Tree

“ONE TREE” a series where each site-specific installation is constructed from a single fallen tree recognizing the interconnectedness of the person and the site. These environmental interventions, ‘personages’ become an homage and/or personification of individuals where their interconnectedness brings significance to a particular place and time. The tree is perhaps our most important partner on the planet. When a great tree falls, just as a human being, much is lost. When a tree falls, a transformation occurs, and a new generated form becomes an incremental step in the greater continuum!

Sacagawea – Artinplace Exhibition, Charlottesville, VA  2010 – 2014.  21’ x 75’ x 20’

Sacagawea,  a site-specific environmental installation in Charlottesville, VA, constructed from a full grown oak tree that fell in a storm.  The piece was made from sections of the tree removed, milled into slabs and reassembled back into the tree. ONE TREE piece is name for Sacagawea, a Native American, daughter of a Shoshone Chief, part of the Lemhi -Shoshone people, accompanied Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery the first expedition to open the frontier westward traveling thousands of miles from the Hidatsa Village in North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean.

Housatonic at Stockbridge, Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2013, Chesterwood National Historic Trust, Stockbridge, MA  2013

Housatonic at Stockbridge, a site-specific environmental installation at Chesterwood National Historic Trust constructed from two full growth standing dead Scott pine trees located in the garden yard.  The trees were cut leaving the base of one of the Scott pines and the body of the piece is milled into all the parts of the sculpture and reassembled on site and re- connected to the top of the tree.  The Housatonic at Stockbridge is named after a composition by Charles Ives, inspired by a walk that Charles Ives took with his newly married wife, Harmony on the Housatonic River,   This is music and our sculpture reflect this river environment.

Emese’s Dream – International Sculptor Symposium in 2010 to the Museum of Tatabanya, Tatabanya, Hungary.

Emese’s Dream is an installation in Tatabanya Hungary made from 2 native pine trees milled into the elements and reassembled in the gallery of the Museum of Tatabanya.  The piece is named for Emese's Dream,  the legend concerning the conception of Prnce Álmos, iis one of the earliest known tales from Hungarian history. According to tradition, Emese is the mother of the Magyar royal dynasty, which sprang from one of the seven original Magyar tribes. Hence, she has been credited as "the mother of all ethnic Hungarians".

Naphal, Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2008, Lillian Heller’s Curator’s Award, Chesterwood National Historic Trust, Stockbridge, MA 200

Regeneration 2006, Naphal 2008 and Sprout 2009 are three iterations of site-specific environmental installation using a single full growth standing dead Hemlock tree over 4 years Chesterwood National Historic Trust, Stockbridge, MA