Piano: is a series of actions, performances and sculptures that utilize pianos as the primary objects through which I explore concepts of tension, transformation and release. It is a trifold process of unmaking, playing and remaking. Pianos are rich in symbolic meaning.

Theme & Variation (images above and below) originated from my desire to challenge my traditional training in this instrument and to express some of my experience of recovery from profound encounters with violent trauma.

Using a single Young Chang U121, I created two experimental video performance works (“Hex & Defense” and “Reaping & Sowing”) before I disassembled the instrument completely. From the pieces, I created 12 new sculptural works.