Selected Work
Golden Records
In 1977, Carl Sagan and his team attached a golden record to the Voyager spacecraft before it launched into deep space — a disc etched with the sounds of Earth: its music, its languages, the voices and heartbeats of its people, sent outward on the chance that some other form of life might one day find it and know we were here. In reaching out beyond the unknown, we stretch toward the dream of connection — cast out into the heavens, among the stars.
The Golden Records series pays homage to that gesture — to the impulse to commune with creation and the forces of the cosmos — but moves our attention in the opposite direction. Rather than reaching for the stars, this body of work presses down into the Earth and its prima materia: stone, the bedrock of matter, technology, and life itself.
No. 1 — 2024
Golden Egg
Available on commission — details below.
The first work in the series is the Golden Egg, named for the ancient fable — recounted by Aesop — of the goose that laid golden eggs, and the greed that destroyed it. The fable is a meditation on value: on what is lost when we grasp for wealth all at once rather than honoring the patience and time it takes to arrive. The Golden Egg carries that same lesson in material form — an object shaped slowly, over deep time, that asks to be valued for the process that made it, not merely for what it appears to hold.
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Material Origins
The basalt stones on Oregon's northern beaches were formed millions of years ago by lava flows that originated in what is now eastern Oregon and Washington. The lava cooled into solid basalt, and over millions of years, the ocean wore it down — smoothing its edges, rounding its form. Stones carried furthest from shore endure the most extreme forces, and are sculpted into the most perfect spheres and ovals.
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Golden Egg — Bronze Edition
Solid bronze cast of an ocean-weathered volcanic basalt stone. First edition of 108.
Golden Egg
Series: Golden Records
Number: 1/108
3H x 1.75W x 1 in.
Solid bronze cast of ocean-weathered volcanic basalt
Provenance
Date collected: 10.7.21
Date cast: 10.7.23
Material origins: Basalt Stone
Collection Source: Kiawanda Headlands, OR — 45.21862, -123.97711
Indigenous people: Siuslaw — “Cape Kiwanda” comes from the Siuslaw language and means “place of big winds” or “place where the wind blows”
The oval recalls a cosmic egg — echoing the Earth's own orbit around the sun, swirling and soaring across the universe at unimaginable speed.
When I hold this stone, I sense its memory. Each stone has a story, and like us, no two bodies of matter are exactly alike.
It is my hope that this stone serves as a symbolic reminder of the rewards of patience, and of wisdom forged over long periods of time. I invite you to explore how it speaks to and through you — revealing the secrets of space, and the beauty of time.
Read the Fable
The Goose Who Laid the Golden Egg
One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him. But he took it home on second thoughts, and soon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold.
Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs. As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.
Greed often overreaches itself.
Μία μέρα ένας συμπατριώτης που πήγαινε στη φωλιά της χήνας του βρήκε εκεί ένα αυγό ολοκίτρινο και αστραφτερό. Όταν το σήκωσε ήταν βαρύ σαν μόλυβδο και επρόκειτο να το πετάξει, γιατί νόμιζε ότι του είχαν κάνει κόλπο. Αλλά το πήρε σπίτι με δεύτερες σκέψεις, και σύντομα διαπίστωσε με χαρά του ότι ήταν ένα αυγό από καθαρό χρυσό.
Κάθε πρωί συνέβαινε το ίδιο πράγμα και σύντομα έγινε πλούσιος πουλώντας τα αυγά του. Καθώς πλούτιζε, γινόταν άπληστος, και σκεπτόμενος να πάρει αμέσως όλο το χρυσό που μπορούσε να δώσει η Χήνα, το σκότωσε και το άνοιξε για να μην βρει τίποτα.
Η απληστία φτάνει συχνά στον εαυτό της.
Selected Work
Tablets (14) — SS-14.01, Stone Tablet, Incised
Sandstone, incised. 2025. One of fourteen works in the Stone Studies series — worked stone objects bearing repeated scriptural markings, produced through sustained, repetitive contact. Collected at the ocean's edge and worked by the artist over multiple years.
Tablets (14)
Sandstone, incised
Dimensions: TBD
Series of 14 works — Stone Studies
Note
Each incision functions less as an individual sign than as part of a cumulative field — evidence of return, endurance, and attention. The mark is less an act of expression than a commitment to remain.
This stone tablet bears the accumulated marks of sustained human contact. Its surface is densely worked with repeated incisions, arranged in rhythmic vertical sequences that suggest duration rather than inscription, process rather than message. The markings resist immediate legibility, occupying a threshold between writing, notation, and abstraction. What is recorded here is not an image to be read, but a relationship to time made visible through repetition.
The act of marking appears deliberate and patient, likely carried out over extended periods. Each incision functions less as an individual sign than as part of a cumulative field — evidence of return, endurance, and attention. Such objects recall ancient traditions in which stone served as a carrier of memory, vow, or cosmological order, rather than as a vehicle for representation. In this context, repetition itself becomes expressive: gesture solidified into form.
Whether ancient or contemporary, the logic of this object belongs to a worldview that trusted matter to outlast the human voice. It stands as a quiet testament to a way of making in which meaning emerges slowly, through pressure, rhythm, and time — where the mark is less an act of expression than a commitment to remain.
"Form emerges here through repetition rather than composition. The marks hover between writing and abstraction... Meaning, in this context, does not depend on decipherability; it depends on persistence."