Drowning Fear with Fascination

In my first act of intrepid exploration, I crawled into a sump pump pit and drown.  Naturally curious, I suppose a sump pit could have been confused with a portal to another universe.

Face down, in a pool of water, I passed briefly between life and death.  My aquatic adventure was cut short when, fortunately, I was revived.  However my relationship to water was profoundly changed.  The lasting experience infused every body of water, from bathtubs to the open ocean, with a sense of fear and fascination.

Each piece explores the complex relationships we have with water.  Focusing on the architectural aspects like the surface or the volume of depth, the sea is cut open and examined as a physical space.  It is suspended, frozen in time, and held in place so that we may see the possibility of multiple dimensions at the same time.  Much in the way ancient temples lead us through a personal trajectory to the divine, each pieces allows us to venture deeper into our psychological sense of being immersed in a water environment and how our senses change the moment we enter the water.