A 5x7 piece of mixed media art.  Sold at an arts and humanities show and in private collection.

A 5x7 piece of mixed media art, displayed in Homer, Alaska.   In private collection.

A 5x7 piece of mixed media art.  Sold at an arts and humanities show in conjunction with Levon Anoroc Cuatro #4 and in private collection.

A 6-foot aluminum sculpture created with my neighbor Ed.  This sculpture graced the waiting room of Allen Marine in Ketchikan, Alaska for several years.   Available for purchase.

She-he-they was a creation to celebrate diversity and acceptance.  I had always wanted to create a unique skeletal form based on wood pieces.  The "penis" I found on the beach sealed the concept. Originally, my figure had two breasts (hand-held strainer) but one kept falling off (resisted being permanently affixed); that combined with the wood penis defined itself, as art usually does.  

One of several geckos, embellished with paint, rocks and copper.  Created in collaboration with my brother David who is a metalsmith and creative artist. In private collection.

A wall sculpture created from musk-ox bones found on Kodiak Island and other beach objects collected.  In private collection.

This old Dutch butter mold intrigued me.  Found in a second-hand store, the flower mold reminded me of the chambers of the heart.  I painted the interior mold a deep red color; teak-oiled its two presses, and then added red plastic coated electrical wiring to resemble arteries of the human heart.  

This was challenging.  I designed an aurora borealis pattern on paper.  I next selected seed and tubular beads and patterned each individual string (100s) to mimic my aurora borealis drawing.  I fixed each one under a piece of tape, and my friend Victoria (then an Art's Council director) helped by machine sewing each string to a bias tape.  The bias tape was then affixed to a piece of driftwood.  When hung in the sun or a window; the effect is very much an aurora borealis.

My art is within a shadow box (a turn-of-the century wall-hung antique shaving or vanity box and hinged mirror).  The exterior is as found, but I added four legs and down-rigger fishing weights to keep it from toppling.  Within I made a very intricate Nativity scene from objects to include Kewpie dolls (Mary and Joseph) and a china baby doll (Jesus) in a manger cradle.  The entire scene depicts Mary, Joseph and Jesus as well as other items of wierd celebration.  The top shelf represents some choas in a bathroom (don't ask why).  This art was inspired by a Dali (or it may have been Joseph Cornell) shadow-box that I viewed at the Art Institute in Chicago.  This piece is In private collection.  

At the bottom on the Colorado Rivder delta, just prior to entering Lake Powell, this artist found a piece of wood that strongly resembled a human hand.  With clandestine intention, the wood came home in my ruck-sack and became art for my new-friend Darla.  We met on this 21-day river-rafting trip and both agreed it looked hand-like. I am honored she acepted the art as a gift.  Several coats of teak oil polished the hand which is affixed to an antique-something (???) base with a piece of red chert from our trip.

Who knows what goes on in the mind of an artist?    This piece is simply "naked Barbies playing a piano."  The sharps/flats black keys were rescued from an old piano that slid off the back of a pick-up truck in rural Idaho - deep in a ravine and were rescued and salvaged by this artist for something... guess what that something became?

This sculpture began in Idaho when my Mother told me there was a "deer skeleton hanging from a tree down the hill."  Killed by a fall hunter, I scavenged the carcass, brought it home, boiled down the bones on a Coleman propane stove for several hours (days) until they fell apart and then proceeded to re-assemble.  The bones were clean, dried and painted a bone color.  The beads and deer claws do the rest of the work.  The rib cage and form are marbles and wire.  In private collection.