Suburban Houses
As a child I witnessed trees being bulldozed down and the earth shaped, followed by houses being built. It was fascinating. New houses with no grass, no trees and no people yet. It was a strange, mysterious landscape.
“This early experience of watching houses grow out of the torn earth undergirds my work. Are the houses in my art rising or are they abandoned? Is this creation or destruction? Some of my houses have scorch marks on them from being burned by a torch I carefully use in my studio. Then I may repair them after I burn them.”
