"Couple on mattress #1"
1997
Paint on mattress
74.5 x 38.5 inches

Mattresses, like cells, are modular 
units that are both personal and 
universal -- generic, rectangular 
forms upon which we leave our most 
intimate marks.

"Couple on mattress #2"
2000
Paint on mattress
75 x 80 inches

"Couple on mattress #3"
2000
Paint on mattress
75 x 79 inches

Chromosomes are eerie representations 
of our primal selves: figurative, yet 
nonfigurative; gendered yet nongendered; 
physical yet metaphysical.

"Groping"
2001
Oil and acrylic resin on canvases
72 x 60 inches

Mitosis -- the process by which 
chromosomes in the cell's nucleus 
divide and multiply -- is a vivid 
enactment of the elemental drama 
of merging, separation, and 
transformation.

"Records embedded in resin"
2000
6 painted records embedded 
in polyester resin
Each record, framed; 14.75 x 14.75 inches

Phonographic records are curiously 
analagous to DNA: both are encoded 
materials with coiled information 
that unfolds in time.