We have pursued these collaborations as a means of developing visual language that allows combined commentary on social and political issues affecting us. The content ranges from our concern with world population, globalization, corporations, the natural environment and the state of the human mind.  We investigate the complexities of modern life emphasizing the processes by which the global community is being developed. The Deluge Series is also influenced by individual aspects, such as our personal relationship and gender roles in association with the former. As a married couple and collaborative artists, the installations are an expansion of our “dinner table” conversation. Simple ideas easily matriculate and working in tandem allows us to create temporary sweatshops of mass production as part of our creative process.

“An unexamined life is not worth living”, Socrates’ profound statement on the essence of life is indisputably the cornerstone to critical thought. It is our aim to invest the work with communicative ability, to invite and persuade with powerful instructive undercurrents and visual compositions that impress with magnitude and repetition. The title and theme of the work was appropriated from a set of drawings created by Leonardo da Vinci. It is believed that da Vinci expected the world to end as the result of a catastrophic natural disaster, most probably a flood.  The deluge we investigate is not a natural disaster induced by torrential rains and swelling rivers, but the equally disastrous ramifications of the self-inflicted barrage of human over-production and global consumption. 

The installations utilize an assemblage of audio, video, sculptural, and kinetic multiples to examine dependency on assembly-line products and traditional and social conventions. The visually elaborate installations convey the way objects and structure surrounding us can subtly bind us into roles that either impede or contribute to the expressive, expansive, creative journey. Our installations often focus on recycling. As sculptors, our interest in object and material is profound, whether in the found object or the fabricated sculpture. The resulting Deluge Series remains site specific to the architectural nuances of particular venues and is customized to available resources and individualistic themes. Particular items of discussion targeted by The Deluge Series range from facts such as world population now exceeding 6 billion people to comparisons of factory farming with that of free range in our latest work titled Free Range. This installation utilized wood, flour and corn, as it’s primary ingredients accompanied by digital video footage. Exhibitions vary from cluttered overwhelming use of objects as in The False Security of Over-Consumption to spatially clean architectural works as in The Penitentiary of Routine Conformification. The work aims to successfully combine the macabre and playful, the familiar with the unfamiliar, as components which attract the viewer to examine their place in the installation and their role and responsibility in affecting society on a global level.