"(3) Possibilities for Reintroduction"

This was the first manifestation of an ongoing project, exhibited in November of 2005. Organic elements, which were removed from contemporary installations by well-known artists, are inserted into an active natural process which facilitates their eventual reintroduction into nature and thus the role they would have played had they not been removed and used in an artwork. A twig from an Andy Goldsworthy installation, for example, is mixed into a small amount of active compost consisting of kitchen and garden scraps from my home. The compost is tended to throughout the exhibition, then later mixed back into a larger pile and eventually spread into my garden. The twig itself will eventually be broken down into soil. Similarly, a stone from a Sol LeWitt sculpture is introduced into the gravel parking lot of a bar in my neighborhood, to be ground down and eroded by cars and other similar stones. Participating artists so far include Andy Goldsworthy, Sol LeWitt, and John Bock.

installation view, 2005

below: Andy Goldsworthy, Sol LeWitt

below: details of Andy Goldsworthy section of installation