Conscientious Objects
Messing with the odds of tragic outcomes - remaking natural history
One bison. 14 x 13 x 6 inches/ 36 x 33 x 15 cm
Migration to the land of the missing bison
Unkilling: delegation for the extinct species, bison bison. 70 x 54 x 8 inches/ 178 x 137 x 20 cm
Ancestor
22 x 19.5 x 8.5 inches/56 x 49.5 x 21.5 cm
Petrified 5.5 x 24 x 6 inches/ 14 x 61 x 15 cm
Drawing inside
10 inches/25.5 cm tall by 4.25 inches/11 cm diameter
14.75 inches/37.5 cm tall by 4.25 inches/11 cm diameter
Long green California asparagus
20 x 19 x1.75 inches / 51 x48 x 4.5cm
Wording on a wooden crate, long green California asparagus, gave an anagram, lifelong paranoia graces us. Asparagus painted for the anagram framing the painting.
Biophile: endangered woulds
8.5 x 7.5 x 2.25 inches/ 21.5 x 19 x 6 cm
Concerning the dodo. 8.5 x 4.75 x 2 inches/21.5 x 12 x 5 cm
A day in the woods. 7 x 5.5 x 6 inches/ 18 x 14 x 15 cm
The sorry phone. 26 x 22 x 9 inches
The sorry phone
Boxcar
14.5 x 9 x9 inches/ 37 x 23 x23 cm
Prosthesis with rotating patella. 35 x 13.5 x 4 inches/ 89 x 34.5 x 10 cm
Prosthesis for keeping above water. 24 x 6 x 16.5 inches/ 61 x 15 x 42 cm
24 x 6 x 11.5 inches/ 61 x 15 x 29 cm
Prosthesis for keeping above water
Carolina parakeet, extinct
33 x 15 x 5.5" inches/ 84 x 38 x 14 cm
Found in flocks of hundreds to a thousand over vast swathes of the US, this parakeet was declared extinct by 1939, but was probably gone earlier. Farmers were fed up with them eating the grain, so they shot them into oblivion. These sociable birds flocked to the scene of the crime, rather than fly away, and were easy to pick off.
Nailed it. 6.5 x 7.5 x 17 inches/16.5 x 19 x 43 cm
Scratch this stick across the upper deck of nails to hear the duck
Octopus table (with secret chamber)
18 x 18 x 30 inches/ 46 x 46 x 76 cm
Snowy owl. 14 x13 x6 inches/ 36 x 33 x 15 cm
Black faced sheep. 13 x 12 x 6 inches/33 x 30.5 x 15cm
Shoehorn owl. 14 x13 x6 inches/ 36 x 33 x 15 cm
Urban planning with owls. 18 x 18.5 x12 inches/ 46 x 47 x 30.5 cm
For the two great horned owls, mother and son, who died from ingesting rat poison on Bernal Hill in 2012. I had seen these two owls high up in a tree. The mother tilted her head and locked eyes with me for at least a minute. I will never forget the sensation it gave me or my sorrow when I read how they died.
Urban planning with owls
Urban planning with owls
Libretto for the black box (made in September 2001)
Libretto for the black box (September 2001)
Libretto for the black box (September 2001)
22 x 14 x 3.5 inches/56 x 35.5 x 9 cm
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