selected works from 1985-2009


Sometimes I like a happy ending; sometimes I like a sad ending (2009)
random objects random thoughts (2009)
Signs of Life: an intimate portrait of someone I don't know (2008)
Le stade du Miroir (2003)
you are on my mind (2003)
The Trouble with Translation (2003)
​Family Album (2002)
between two points (2001)
Doing Time (2000)
Staging Memory (2000)
I should have, I could have, I would have... ...if only (1998)
I am ... (1998)
The Veiled Room (1998)
Projections for the Unseeing (1997)
A Portable Viewing Station for Anxious Travelers (1994)
In Memoriam Forgetting and Remembering Fragments of History (1993)
Measure of the Man (1992)
Fragments for a Story (1991)
Search for Definition (1991)
Isn't your/my mother beautiful? (1990)
Neon for j.e. atkinson (1990)
My lips are sealed (1989)
Contradictions and Possibilities (1988)
In the room (1987)
Hide and Seek (1985)
Back to Back (1985)


Measure of the Man, 1992 

Materials: Steel, cast marble, aluminium
Dimensions: 54 x 48 in.
Exhibition: Workscene Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Photo credit: Isaac Applebaum

Measure of the Man seeks to interrogate the representation of masculine authority. The elements of the installation are: a steel pattern for a jacket inscribed with the words 'cogito ergo sum' ( I think therefore I am), a table of proportionate measurements for height and circumference used by tailors to construct suits for men, a steel frame to hold jackets called a 'silent butler' which supports a man's suit jacket and a single loafer. Taken together, these elements suggest a man of rational thought, a certain rigidity of habit and manner, a distant, intimidating figure; a stereotype of banker, perhaps. These fragments deconstruct this image of a man to take his measure, only to find him wanting.