7 days of duration performances were staged within an installation of art, sound and video responding to the military history of Governors Island, located in the New York Harbor. Visions of violence and flight filled two stories of this family home on Colonels Row. Open birdcages exhibited throughout the house echoed the military prisons once located on this now public island. Recorded names of women and children from cemetary records resonated through the bedrooms, along with other recorded texts. 32 goose feathers were stitched into my skin over the course of 7 days. The final performance occurred in a tree, located in front of the house

Curated by the Robert Wilson Watermill Center as part of the New Island Festival, Governors Island, NYC. Sept. 2009.

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Mixed media drawings mounted on found wood with teabags, video, sound and other objects. Installed at Pan American Art Projects, Miami FL. 2008, Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, CA 2006 & SUNY Art Museum, Albany NY 2006.

Site specific installation with murals and rose window alteration at historic St. Anthony's Church, Albany, NY. Installed in conjunction with a 3 hour performance suspended in the church bell tower (see performance page)

Installation and performance with Jessi Rose Vala at Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose CA.

Riverbird Serenade, installation performance. Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA.

A carved wooden chair is suspended from a metal bridge. Musical serenades are performed in the chair 10 ft. above a river with cars driving overhead and birds flying through. Performance and chair can be viewed through gallery windows. Concurrently, an indoor installation consists of four chairs suspended in individual window wells. Beneath each chair is a nest of rocks collected from the river. One empty window invites viewing of the suspended chair outside. During non-performance hours, serenades can be watched on video and performance garment hangs alongside video monitor. Located in a haunted garment factory and above a distressed river.

Deliverance, video installation with sound, drawings, medical gown & architectural objects. Installed at Photo New York, NYC.

Domes and Steeples, site specific installation performance. Cesta Artist Center, Czech Republic

Using a screw driver and a nail, drawings from local architecture were carved into the walls of a 10 by 11ft room revealing layers of paint dating through the Nazi and Communist occupations. Installation included on-site field recordings and a musical performance. Created during an artists residency.

Phantom View of the Mancuso Furniture Showroom, site specific installation performance created at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco CA. July 2005.

A wooden chair is suspended in a stairwell where the original floor used to be when the building was a furniture shop. To the right of the chair a mattress is suspended in reference to the mattress storage that once occupied that space. Video of the San Francisco earthquake superimposed with brances and crows is projected behind the chair. A six hour performance occured in the chair, dangling over a 10 ft, two storey stairwell. Viewers enter the stairwell through an installation of architectural windows, wood and hand carved signs.

Memory Parlour, mixed media installation. 12ft. by 11ft. by 10ft. cabin, filled with drawings and architectural objects, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Bay Area Now 3, San Francisco, CA. 2002/2003