Catalog Entry from If These Walls Could Talk Exhibit, Neill-Cochran House 2020:

“All in One came about as the final piece in my series of What Art Supplies when I realized I’d done a lot with painting, photography, and drawing supplies, but not much with clay, which is my main squeeze. I had previously made the Ex Nihilo box and rolling pin, etc., then took it another step: a combination of all these. Thus All in One includes clay-working tools with paint brushes, etc. A free-floating piece, it offers no intellectual connection between the art history images on it; they just fit. Why a lamp—I don’t know— maybe because art illuminates? I combed my studio for parts and came up with a brown porcelain stick left over from some project, along with an abandoned lampshade from This Little Light of Mine, an early piece that, aesthetically, wasn’t really a successful work. Since college I’d kept my brushes in a coffee can, à la Jasper Johns’ bronzes. I found old photos of that can with a Pietà statue. Coincidentally, I found a small Pietà replica still in its packaging from the 1960s NY World’s Fair. It inspired the lamp finial, topping off the whole thing. That one with its sacred death is juxtaposed with Klimt’s The Kiss—my favorite rendition of secular love.” (Artist’s Note from 2010) All in One represents a recurring theme in my work, the transformative nature of generosity. When the coffee can required text, I could not resist a favorite poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Archaic Torso of Apollo.” Last lines: for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.