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War Games, 1998, Oil on linen, 50" X 50"
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Shadowed World with Soldiers, 2004, Oil on linen, 34" X 48"
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Shadowed Landscape (Afghanistan), 2008, Oil on linen, 30" X 40"
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Map, 2004, Oil on linen, 18" X 23"
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Iraq, 2006, Oil on linen, 12" X 15"
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Iraq II, 2004, Oil on linen, 11" X 15"
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Spain III, 2004, Oil on linen, 9" X 15"
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Spain II, 2004, Oil on linen, 8" X 15"
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War Games Darfur, 2006, Mixed media panel, 16" X 23.5"
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Spoils of War, 2008, Mixed media on linen, 20" X 18.5"
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Shattered World, 2004, Oil on linen, 40" x 54"
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A game is a way of representing the world. Thus, a game transposes systems of values or abstract formal systems into concrete object. The idea of the game becomes part of the subject. My son and his peers casually played video games of killing. There was permission to violence that has seemingly no permanent consequence; there was only the romance and the heroic. The mounting toll of deaths in our own war has brought into the work the ghostly forms of toy soldiers,. They are faceless so as not to represent any individual that we could name but to be any soldier or all soldiers. Ghostlike their shadows appear as substance, ominous in the landscape.
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