Totems

The totem projects investigate story-

telling , allegory, and balance in a variety

of materials and form. Calling upon the

language of traditional animistic

religion,s each object is researched and

chosen for its symbolic power in relation

to the other objects. Complex relation-

ships are explored. Similar to dream

analysis in the Jung tradition, the depth

of meaning rises out of a resistance to

attaching to concrete analyses. The

power of symbols exists in their ability

to point out dichotomies, existing in the

discomfort of opposites. Rocks occupy

an important place in these stories as

they continue to represent the earth in

its enormous timeline, its slow processes

of transformation, and its ambiguous

lessons for us. The materials themselves

have become part of the story as they

point more directly to human creation,

use, waste, and reuse. We are all part of

a bigger process of generation,

decomposition, and regeneration. Each

of our stories, a small but essential

piece in the process of the universe.