My recent work is focused on my experience as a foreigner living in the Czech capital.  Residents of this former Eastern bloc country reflect a mixture of attitudes: remnants of communist-style austerity are often mixed with a disappointment in contemporary political leaders.  These works intend to examine different aspects of an ancient city’s history through visual means (those most available to a foreigner), contrasting contemporary decadence with an aged sternness.

Time and memory are central facets of the works.  Cleansing Light, an installation containing shadows of both specific and generalized architectural elements of the city of Prague, displays the moving-imagery of dreams and memories of a city.  The images are never exactly in focus, nor are they correct in terms of size and scale.  A moving light distorts the shadow shapes, elongating and shrinking them, just before they disappear into deep memory.

The Jindřišská Tower sculpture, on the other hand, is a faithfully reproduced miniature wood version of the actual tower near the school where I teach.  Time is palpable in a different sense, as each mini-brick is hand cut and consciously placed