25 000 to 5 (the retreat) I, II, III, 2006 | charcoal, graphite, cement, plaster on board | 3 panels, each 32" x 72"

The series depicts the mass and movement of the three great glacial ice retreats significant to the history of man in Canada. The first drawing is the exposing of the Beirring Straight between modern Alaska and Russia. The second is the creation of the great lakes with the retreat of the Laurentien ice sheet from Ontario. While the third takes place in the near future with the foreseen melting of the polar ice. Using concrete washes, plaster and powered charcoal the combination of materials become models of the large ice sheets through the dispersal of particles into the cracks and crevasses on the undulating and scared wood panels.

Silurian Diluvium, 2006 | graphite, cement, white stain on wood panel | 48" x 96" by ¾ inch

The Silurian time period in geologic history contains the sea life and coral reefs that became the cliffs of the modern day Niagara Escarpment. As well in this time period, when what is now Ontario was the slope of an inland sea, there were sharks and fish, little or no land plants and of particular interest the first amphibians started to appear. These early amphibians had claw like fins that could push them around on land. Not long after this time period the first creatures to ever walk on land in the history of the earth left the oceans for good. This drawing is trying to collide our vision of the escarpment today with the great barrier reef that it once was. A devastating flood through an incomprehensible calamity of time.