Selected Works:

• Eluding Security:

This was more a game I would play with campus security. I liked to walk around late at night and often security (on foot and in cruisers) would watch me and sometimes even stop me. Sometimes I would try making erratic turns or sudden leaps down hills (Hartwick is built on a very steep slope) to see if they would follow or could keep up. Ultimately, I started having my friends who did student work for security sitting in the dorm lounges monitor their radios so I could orchestrate a chase for them and then hear the story back later or sometimes even during the chase.

• Loop-henge

When we ate in the campus commons, my firends and I played with fruit loops alot. We got good at doing things like balancing them on our nose and flipping them into our mouths (I held the record with a stack of 6) or throwing them into anothers mouth for distance. One day I built Loop-henge, a stonehenge like structure made of fruit loops. I t was really more an act of boredom but I really like the story because after I left it there on the table it remained unmolested for nearly a day, until one of the workers decided they had had enough of it and whacked it with a spatula.

• Snowbunny Horde

At least once each winter, often very more, I would create large groups of snowbunnies or a carefully placed few about campus - often staring at or encircling something. A snowbunny is basically a miniature two ball snowman with bunny ears and can be made very quickly and easily. I first got the idea from the Peanuts strip - I believe Linus used to make them in the comic.

• F.Y.A.

F.Y.A. allegedly stands for "Fuck You All" and first appeared when Gregg and I made posters advertising a club meeting for F.Y.A. The posters were hung around campus like any other campus group announcements but all lacked a crucial element such as time or place and often conflicted with each other. Later on, F.Y.A. would be given credit for various other works or take credit for events both real and fictional. It was somewhat inspired by the idea of a 'conspiracy of none' whereby people would begin to seek out, blame, or otherwise recognize something which was actually a complete fiction.

• "This Zucchini Died For Your Sins"

When someone gave the Arthaus a bunch of Zucchini, it was an easy bet they wouldn't be used in a meal. One night I took one the larger ones up the entrance of the dining hall, stomped on it, and used chalk to write on the pavement "This Zucchini Died For Your Sins". Alot of people conjectured about militant veganism and other odd statements but really it was done out of a general sense of mischief and as with much of what I do is just meant to try and add a slightly surreal touch to everyone's day.

• Everywhere Origami

I really like origami, though I rarely fold much anymore. In order to learn a new form I would fold it over and over again and rather than waste these pieces I would gather them up and then place them, usually at night somewhere around campus. Often as a trail or encircling something as with the snowbunnies.

• Insert Gerbils

Insert Gerbils was the Arthaus band, or as we sometimes described it "a musical improv performance art group" that included Gregg on drums and myself as 'lead spectacle' of sorts along with a few others. We mainly played in the Arthaus basement but also once played in the Agora as part of Arts for April - all of which involved a certain amount of property damage and in at least one incident me dismantling a chair and throwing the pieces in the direction of the school president and his wife. Remember though - this wasn't vandalism or assault, it was art!

• The Burden of Higher Education

One of my 'hobbies' and eventual other works involved taking pieces of the campus - door handles, screws, hinges, chain, even stair banisters. For the burden of higher education, I made a large cross using two banisters and some other random pieces which were then wrapped in papers from the registrar's office. This was, ostensibly, the cross that we as students had to bear - maintaining and upgrading the buildings, the red tape paperwork, etc. The cross was placed in the center of campus in front of the library during the night but security and maintenance got to it very quickly and dismantled it before hardly anyone got to see it or the statement that accompanied it. An interesting sidenote is that they put all the pieces back in their original places.

• Expanding and Contracting

Deciding that Hartwick campus should imitate the expansion and contraction of the universe, I chose items like picnic tables and trash bins about campus and would move them at night in order to make them contract together or expand apart from each other.

• Literal Deconstructionism

In order to better understand something, it is often helpful to deconstruct that thing. I took this literally with regards to Hartwick College and made it my mission to dismantle, and sometimes creatively reassemble, as much of it as possible.

• Elevator in Nature

Just outside the Arthaus was a wonderful tree for climbing, but sometimes you don't really want to climb. So, I 'relocated' portions of one of the campus elevators to the upper branches of the tree. It's very possible its still there, I last checked on it around 1999.

• Kaboom

This project was actually aborted after a few failed attempts. The idea was to place a box of Kaboom cereal from the Arthaus cereal box collection of the entrance to the campus chapel. Unfortunately, I was unable to scale the building undetected and it was called off after some close calls.

• The President of Hartwick College

One day I printed up and handed out a few hundred business cards which were inscribed "The bearer of this card is the genuine and recognized President of Hartwick College". Recieptients included random students and staff, animals, trees, sculpture, and, of course, the allegedly 'real' president of the school

• Office Hours

One semester I overtook an unused phone booth in the art building and turned into my office, wherein I displayed pictures and the like from other works and sat hours during which I would talk with anyone who came by to see me. A few weeks into this, my office was somewhat vandalized and thereafter had to be padlocked shut while I was not there.

• Payback & Free Lunch

Not coincidentally, my office hours were often at the same time as meetings held in the art building. This allowed me to grab some of the snacks left outside the theatre for those in the meeting and to change the 'decaf', 'regular', and 'tea' labels on the urns among other things. Eventually, I worked out a schedule of most of the campus meetings that got such service and hit almost all of them at least once.

• Explaining Easter Sunday to a Dead Bunny

When I woke up on Easter Sunday my senior year I was informed that a rabbit had been run over in front of the Arthaus. Not to let a dead bunny go to waste, I collected it in a clear plastic bag, and with Gregg along to take pictures of me and my easter bunny I went across campus drawing eggs in chalk on the sidewalks and building sides until I reached the campus flagpole. Here, I ran the dead bunny up the flagpole, made an inscription at the base, saluted and was done for the day. The title and partial inspiration for this work comes from a Joeseph Beuys piece - Explaining Painting to a Dead Hare.

• Campus Golf Critique

Instead of just sitting down for a critique of my works at the end of my independent study, I took two professors and Gregg golfing - through campus. With each stroke they could ask questions or make statements to which I would then respond while caddying.