Ashes to Ashes drawings in-progress Ashes to Ashes is a series of drawings depicting recent Arizona wildfires, rendered with charcoal samples personally collected from each fire site. The collection represents fourteen significant wildfires from 1990 to the present, using archived [...]

  Charcoal collected from thirteen significant wildfire sites in Arizona, for the Fires of Change project.  From top left: Range (2012), Roosevelt (2007), Outlet (2000), Shultz (2010), Warm (2006), Yarnell Hill (2013), Rodeo/Chediski (2002), Aspen (Walhalla: 2009), Doce (2013), Wallow [...]

Gathering charcoal from the site of the 2014 Slide Fire in Oak Creek Canyon south of Flagstaff, for the Fires of Change project.  I plan to use the charcoal collected from each of twelve significant recent Arizona wildfires to create small-scale drawings [...]

I had the opportunity to spend a week recently with an extraordinary group of artists and fire scientists with the Fires of Change project in Flagstaff, AZ, at the Coconino Center for the Arts and the North Rim of the Grand [...]

Study XVII | 2013 | gouache on paper | 6" x 5" Study XIX | 2013 | gouache on paper | 6" x 5" | private collection Study XX | 2013 | gouache on paper | 5.75" x 7" Study [...]

Untitled (from Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra) | 2013 | charcoal on paper | 45" x 54"   This piece will be exhibited in the 5th Annual Drawing Discourse: Contemporary Drawing Exhibition at the University of North Carolina Asheville, January 17 - March [...]

Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, South Gallery December 12, 2014 - March 22, 2015 Reception February 13, 2015

Photos from the opening reception 10/5: Photos from the artist talk/performance 10/11: