Four Stoppages (Extinct Megafauna) (Africa, Australia, Madagascar, North America)

Four Stoppages (Extinct Megafauna) (Africa, Australia, Madagascar, North America), 2013;

Lumber and Paint; Each 54” x 11¼ ” x ¾”

The green shapes are the disappearance of megafauna with the arrival of homo sapiens on each of four landmasses; from left to right: Africa, Australia, Madagascar, North America. In conversation with Marcel Duchamp’s 3 Standard Stoppages Dealing with a scale of time(millennia) and population/life rather than measure and meters.

Jumping The Shark

Jumping the Shark, 2014; Video, 2'38”

“Jumping the shark” is an idiom used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins to decline in quality. Signaled by a particular scene, episode, or aspect of a show in which the writers use a ridiculous gimmick in an attempt to keep viewers' interest. It is a sign of desperation. In this movie I am jumping back and forth over Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.