Like my drawings, the videos I use in my work are found videos appropriated from online sources.  The sounds I use are created using a system of rational placement of sounds predetermined by the transcripts from the words spoken in the video.  The text is transcribed, and then the sounds are processed electronically using a conceptually created system structure.  The new sound often overlays, and sometimes replaces, the original sound in the video to change, or create a deeper meaning to, the experience of the video. As a non-trained musician, this systematic approach has allowed me to create complicated and intricate sound scores on top of banal visual stimulation.

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Sound score was generated from the following paintings: Guernica by Picasso, Third of May by Goya, Hitler in Hell by Grosz, Survivors by Kollwitz and On Patrol by Dickins.

Video Projection shows the progression of On Patrol, an ink transfer piece by Dickins and part of The Photo Memory Project. Original photograph submitted to the project by Jennifer Cochran Warren.

Other embedded images are from unnamed AP photographers found by a search engine inquiry of Afghanistan.

Video and sound was commissioned by The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company, Houston, TX.

Best listened to with headphones or on a system with a good bass response.

This video was part of an installation entitled "Raising Two White Boys in the South". It is actually two videos/soundtracks meshed into one for online viewing purposes.

The top half of this video was projected on one wall (along with its corresponding soundtrack) and the bottom half on the other wall (with its corresponding soundtrack).

Video contains original video and found imagery.

Sound contains originally recorded environmental sound from my porch in the North Georgia mountains combined with clips from music, television and film.

This piece shows the development of my visual work through the various creative stages as well as the development of the sound score. The notes of the sound score are predetermined by the marks and color values of the visual work. Watch and listen to the video piece as it develops.

This piece was created at the 09 Summer Residency at Goddard College. Video was produced with help from filmmaker Tom Hansell.