"The conservation of metabolic energy was not therefore an end but an orientation of violence: the means of prolonging it [energy, potency] in time"

-Paul Virilio
Untitled (Gifu) Materials:  plywood, cedar board, cedar paneling, and a Styrofoam cinderblock

Untitled (Gifu)

Materials:  plywood, cedar board, cedar paneling, and a Styrofoam cinderblock

Caloric Converter  Reconstituted cadaver pan, white pine, PVC piping, water pump, grip tape, galvanized wash tub, digestive enzymes and water circulated over pig bones causing their slow digestion. 2011

Caloric Converter 

Reconstituted cadaver pan, white pine, PVC piping, water pump, grip tape, galvanized wash tub, digestive enzymes and water circulated over pig bones causing their slow digestion.

2011

“Thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissolvable by the annihilation of one of us.” Reconstituted refrigerator, pressure treated wood, PVC, ice accumulated on frige evaporator coil over the course of the exhibition. 2011

“Thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissolvable by the annihilation of one of us.”

Reconstituted refrigerator, pressure treated wood, PVC, ice accumulated on frige evaporator coil over the course of the exhibition.

2011

Enantiomorph Split wood and a mirror 2010

Enantiomorph

Split wood and a mirror

2010

Prometheus, Elijah and the Pursuit of Perfection homemade steel agility training sleds, truck bed liner, raw clay 2010

Prometheus, Elijah and the Pursuit of Perfection

homemade steel agility training sleds, truck bed liner, raw clay

2010

Tough Loving Care These are some photos of a performance in which I used a 500 lb. tire to “draw” on the floor of the space. I flipped the tire over repeatedly leaving marks on the floor until I was exhausted.  The performance lasted about 12 minutes. Here is a link to footage Grant MacManus made of the performance.   Tough Loving Care Grant also posted a clip of the second version of the performance at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Tough Loving Care at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Tough Loving Care

These are some photos of a performance in which I used a 500 lb. tire to “draw” on the floor of the space. I flipped the tire over repeatedly leaving marks on the floor until I was exhausted.  The performance lasted about 12 minutes.

Here is a link to footage Grant MacManus made of the performance.  

Tough Loving Care

Grant also posted a clip of the second version of the performance at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston:

Tough Loving Care at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Reliquary Materials: hair, resin, wood Artist Ivan Monforte and I gifted each other with a resin cube containing body hair.  The impetus for this project came out of casual conversations we had around themes of sex, love, religion, marriage, martyrdom, intimacy, pain and sainthood.  The intimate and ritualistic action is in an attempt to speak about the simultaneous veneration and rejection of the body often found in spiritual and religious rhetoric.

Reliquary

Materials: hair, resin, wood

Artist Ivan Monforte and I gifted each other with a resin cube containing body hair.  The impetus for this project came out of casual conversations we had around themes of sex, love, religion, marriage, martyrdom, intimacy, pain and sainthood.  The intimate and ritualistic action is in an attempt to speak about the simultaneous veneration and rejection of the body often found in spiritual and religious rhetoric.

Contrapposto concrete, steel, wood, protein powder 2010

Contrapposto

concrete, steel, wood, protein powder

2010

Additive Sculpture Between Jan 6th and April 18th of 2009 I took on the task of attempting to gain as much muscle mass as possible.  Over the roughly 3 1/2 month period I took on a strict weight training regiment, supplement plan, and diet.  I hoped to explore body consciousness and images of power within the bodybuilding subculture first hand.  In the end I had successfully gained 35 lbs and had become completely engrossed in this conception of physical perfection.

Additive Sculpture

Between Jan 6th and April 18th of 2009 I took on the task of attempting to gain as much muscle mass as possible.  Over the roughly 3 1/2 month period I took on a strict weight training regiment, supplement plan, and diet.  I hoped to explore body consciousness and images of power within the bodybuilding subculture first hand.  In the end I had successfully gained 35 lbs and had become completely engrossed in this conception of physical perfection.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Over the course of three months some friends and I trained to flip over a 1000lb. tire. Every other week we each attempted to flip the tire.  The following are links to video footage of each of us trying and everyone but me succeeding in flipping it (I apologize for the barking dog): 

Francis

Jonathan (aka Hammer)

Donnie

The project resulted in a sculpture that consisted of the 1000lb. tire on its side in the gallery with the audio of our attempts emanating from it.