Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1996

This place-specific installation explored the dependence between culture and nature within the specific context of one of America's furniture capitals, Grand Rapids.  The wilderness as we now know it has become an artifact of civilization.  The wild that produced us, that we were dependent upon, is now our dependent.  To symbolically illustrate this mutual dependence, 36 ten-foot Red Pine logs were used to create two diagonal walls on either side of a plywood pathway.  Hanging from the logs and extending from the back wall to the front of the gallery, were six handmade hardwood chairs.  In each chair lap sat a bear skull.