"A Look at Chaos" - 2005-2007

I have always been fascinated by the Caryatids, those pillar like women who hold up the Museum of Science and Industry. This collaboration between myself, media artist Niki Nolin and poet and musician, Sherry Antonini has resulted in a room-sized sculpture/video/poetry installation that includes 5 life-sized carved and assembled 21st. century caryatids supporting three video monitors, along with photographic images, walls of poetry and projections.

The original Caryatids were priestesses of Artemis and represented the pillars of wisdom or "mothers" of society. Each of my sculptures have DVD players mounted on their heads featuring three Chicago dancers. The movements of the dancers in the video are symbolic of the work women have been doing for centuries: folding the tents, packing the bags, sweeping up after the wars.......