My house sculptures are created of solid mahogany, in some cases carved and painted, and others left unpainted adorned with found objects. They represent two directions that interest me – landscape and allegory. The house shape interests me on many levels. According to Carl Jung, in dream symbology the house represents ourselves. Jung used architecture as a conceptual tool to study the structure of the human psyche. In fact, it was Jung’s dream of a multistorey house that helped him develop his idea of the collective unconscious. His exploration of this dream house proved so profound that Jung began to understand himself as a kind of architect.

My unpainted house sculptures are left unpainted and finished to bring out the coloring of the wood and its durable nature. Found objects with multifaceted meaning are imbedded in the wood, to illustrate the concept. Two sculptures created during the Pandemic, “House Bound” and “Wired” speak to the frustrations limitations and vulnerabilities many of us experienced.

The painted house sculptures provide 6 sides for 6 individual small paintings, different on each side yet somehow must come together from one side to another. These painted house sculptures represent the physical landscape that surround us. “Mirage”, “Somewhere Out West” and “Texas” are three sculptures that are based on landscape, real and imagined.

The smallest house sculptures are tiny six sided Abstract Expressionist paintings, with my study of the artworks of Joseph Albers, Mark Rothko, as well as the work of California artist Ron Davis. Big concepts on tiny surfaces!