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| My art practice focuses upon water and its relationship to land, cities and culture. The early work is more sensual, the later work more conceptual and my most recent practices are increasingly instrumental focused on a neo-Beuysian social sculpture approach, or, in the language of urban design, a radical planning approach to creative change. From the beginning, my work has been about art, the public realm, and the shift in value that can occur when art informs perception and experience. Over time the work has changed in terms of the scale that I conceptualize, as well as the tools that I use in my daily practice. Today, I spend as much time with database driven GIS tools as I once did with my collection of shop tools. Electronic media is used in everything I do, although the technology is not the focus of the work. I am more interested in causal effect through creative focus on the subject areas of nature and culture. My own understanding and interest in research has expanded beyond the typical study that informs art practice. I define this “typical study” as the generation and shaping of ideas and images that are embodied in art valued by primary authorship. My research practice today is about the generation of ideas and images that can be replicated, utilized, or externalized beyond my own authorship–in effect, tools for the public realm. These tools take the form of theories, concepts, images, and protocol that expand understanding. I am also interested in images, concepts and processes that encourage us to have a dialogic relationship with the material form and discursive function of the public realm. One way to understand this is in terms of interface–idea, images, and processes that take up a position between unrelated systems with the intent of cross boundary communication. My work on interface focuses upon the post industrial conditions that separate urban dwellers from nature and citizens from any sense of creative or causal effect upon decision makers. I am invested in the idea of rational dialogue and creative consensus, framed within a clear moral and ethical understanding of issues of voice, agency, and authority. Ultimately, I am interested in transformation, which is simply the next step in a move towards sustained responsibility in a creative critical relationship between nature and culture. I continue to work closely with my partner and colleague Reiko Goto. She and I have just finished proposals for new biennials that are in the planning stages. They focus on land use issues, one to be held near Dresden in Germany, the other to be held in the Negev Desert of Israel. We have just returned from the Geumgang Biennalle in South Korea, this past summer. Also: Take a look at
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