MONUMENT TO THE HOUSE FIRE DEAD 2009-11

Silent and ephemeral temporary monument begun originally as a response to a memory from a house fire witnessed in 1983 then reworked after recently coming upon a dead body being pulled from the River Thames, one of many such deaths each year that go unreported.

THE END OF HIS/STORY 2011

THE END OF HIS/STORY is the revealing of the machinations that an artist experiences in the formulation of an idea. In the experiment he makes a silent détournement of the artifice of public performance epitomised by the pomp and respect of the piano recital, investing the instrument and the spectacle with new potential through its dissemination.