ART
Backyard Study #1: Fall City, 2011
A photographic pursuit of memory
A photographic pursuit of memory
Backyard Study #2: Fall City, 2011
An ongoing investigation of memory
An ongoing investigation of memory
Jack's Epitaph, 2010
Site-specific public art installation,
Tacoma, WA
Site-specific public art installation,
Tacoma, WA
Eight Belles' Dream:
A Collaboration with Inmates of Montana State Prison, 2012
This classic horse bridle, made in 2012, presents an example of the centuries-old American crafts of leatherworking and horsehair hitching. The latter is a superb yet vanishing Western art that is surviving in few places except inside the walls of Montana State Prison, where inmates pass on their knowledge hand to hand, and are allowed to sell their intricate work inside the prison gift store for up to thousands of dollars. This project was made possible withsupport from a Tacoma Artists Initiative Project grant. Find out more about it here.
Headstall: Lisa Kinoshita. Kangaroo leather, horsehair, antler, sterling silver, steel.
Cheekstrap tassels: Pat Turner. Hitched horsehair.
Reins: Anonymous (inmate). Hitched horsehair.
A Collaboration with Inmates of Montana State Prison, 2012
This classic horse bridle, made in 2012, presents an example of the centuries-old American crafts of leatherworking and horsehair hitching. The latter is a superb yet vanishing Western art that is surviving in few places except inside the walls of Montana State Prison, where inmates pass on their knowledge hand to hand, and are allowed to sell their intricate work inside the prison gift store for up to thousands of dollars. This project was made possible withsupport from a Tacoma Artists Initiative Project grant. Find out more about it here.
Headstall: Lisa Kinoshita. Kangaroo leather, horsehair, antler, sterling silver, steel.
Cheekstrap tassels: Pat Turner. Hitched horsehair.
Reins: Anonymous (inmate). Hitched horsehair.
Valley Roundelay, 2012
This architectural study inspired by the iconic American barn is made from jewel-tone, interlocking panels. Commissioned by the City of Fife, Washington, the artwork is an homage to the area's agricultural history, and the immigrants of many countries who came to settle in the shadow of Mt. Rainier. Its modernist lines and materials reflect the community's evolution from the past into the unforeseeable future. A roundelay is a repeating refrain in music - Valley Roundelay hints at how family farms and commercial development have imposed cycles of change upon each other.
Plexiglas. 16x42x22in
Collection of Fife Historical Society
This architectural study inspired by the iconic American barn is made from jewel-tone, interlocking panels. Commissioned by the City of Fife, Washington, the artwork is an homage to the area's agricultural history, and the immigrants of many countries who came to settle in the shadow of Mt. Rainier. Its modernist lines and materials reflect the community's evolution from the past into the unforeseeable future. A roundelay is a repeating refrain in music - Valley Roundelay hints at how family farms and commercial development have imposed cycles of change upon each other.
Plexiglas. 16x42x22in
Collection of Fife Historical Society
What You Own, Owns You, 2010
This triptych of purses in cast resin explores a paradox of American life on three levels: personal, social and universal. The contents of each bag hint at how once obtained, attributes such as beauty, wealth and power may overcome the psyche of the person who then fears losing them.
Mixed media triptych, each 6.25x9x2in
This triptych of purses in cast resin explores a paradox of American life on three levels: personal, social and universal. The contents of each bag hint at how once obtained, attributes such as beauty, wealth and power may overcome the psyche of the person who then fears losing them.
Mixed media triptych, each 6.25x9x2in
Sempervivum I, triptych 2012
This public art commission for Metro Parks Tacoma employs elements of greenroof technology that, while sustaining 6ft. canopies of living sedum plants, also highlight MTP's commitment to sustainable practices. The canopies (on 2 of the 3 sculptures) will change with the seasons and fill out with solid vegetation over time.
Stainless steel, mild steel, capillary felt, polystyrene, sedum plants, soil. 8.5ftx6ft
This public art commission for Metro Parks Tacoma employs elements of greenroof technology that, while sustaining 6ft. canopies of living sedum plants, also highlight MTP's commitment to sustainable practices. The canopies (on 2 of the 3 sculptures) will change with the seasons and fill out with solid vegetation over time.
Stainless steel, mild steel, capillary felt, polystyrene, sedum plants, soil. 8.5ftx6ft
Sempervivum II, triptych 2012
This public art commission for Metro Parks Tacoma employs elements of greenroof technology that, while sustaining 6ft. canopies of living sedum plants, also highlight MTP's commitment to sustainable practices. The canopies (on 2 of the 3 sculptures) will change with the seasons and fill out with solid vegetation over time.
Stainless steel, mild steel, capillary felt, polystyrene, sedum plants, soil. 10ftx6ft
This public art commission for Metro Parks Tacoma employs elements of greenroof technology that, while sustaining 6ft. canopies of living sedum plants, also highlight MTP's commitment to sustainable practices. The canopies (on 2 of the 3 sculptures) will change with the seasons and fill out with solid vegetation over time.
Stainless steel, mild steel, capillary felt, polystyrene, sedum plants, soil. 10ftx6ft
