Mixed media installation
40’x25’x5’ (dimensions variable)
2008

This is a circus train that contains four, wheeled vehicles.  It includes a triangular sandbox, 2 carts for a female Mercury character that is a musician with a butterfly collection and the final large vehicle for land or sea travel.  It includes a velvet-adorned raft with multiple silver oars and a wheeled oceanic vehicle floating through blue glass ice floes.  This final vehicle is driven by a decoy duck wearing a real duck’s wing and bill who reads the book, The Education of a Poker Player:  Including Where and How One Learns to Win.  It is pulled by a male shaman-type character that wears a headdress of gilted antlers with quartz crystal and gloves that read “Bait” and “Switch”.  The cart is trailed by a collection of weights from windows and cuckoo clocks followed by several silver buoy floats.  The theme running through the piece is primarily a characterization of gender roles.  It also explores the relationship between contemporary humans and nature, which is at times hierarchical, at times tenuous but ever-present.