All maerials are found objects including bicycle maps, toy garbage truck, phones, electric switches., reflectors, lenses, computer parts. The box structure was housing for a hard drive.

Presented to the National Science Foundation at their 50th birthday celebration. Given by the Oregon Graduate Institute .

open 18 x 48 x 6
closed 18 x 24 x

a triptych form was chosen because of its versatility to sit on a desk or hang on a wall. A triptych is often used in religious paintings, and connotes reverence. The inscription is inside the large circle, a very old hard disk.

Commissioned by the 2000 graduates of the first Executive MBA class at the University of Washington School of business. it includes photos of class members. The building metaphor was used to exemplfy the concepts of building a business, building a career and building a life. The word building has many meanings. All of them came into play when the piece was designed--a place where work is done, constructing, making, producing, fabricating, molding, manufacturing...

below, exerpt from the Daily Journal of Commerce