Gallery Show: Bits & Pieces
White Mountains Community College graciously invited me to show some of my work in their library gallery space. March 2026.
Pay Per View
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Upcycled relief assemblage: briefcase lid, shredded credit cards, slate roofing, tin can lid, and textbook pages.
In Pay Per View, a briefcase lid becomes a stage for a strange little economy of attention. Shredded credit cards spill across the sky like confetti or static, hovering above a rugged horizon of salvaged slate. Beneath it all, textbook pages whisper the “official” stories we’re taught, while a rusted tin lid hangs like a bruised sun, a coin, or a watchful eye. Made entirely from reclaimed materials, this piece reminds us that a good view has a cost, even when the price tag is invisible.
Broken
Upcycled wall assemblage: broken frame glass, vintage shawl frame, vintage coat buttons, turned wood offcut, textbook pages, and frame samples.
At first glance, Broken reads as orderly: a quiet field of textbook pages, a crisp geometry of frame samples, a turned wood form suspended like a figure in a doorway. Then the viewer notices what was there all along, the glass is fractured. A sweep of black fringe hangs low like a stitched hem, visually “mending” the damage without hiding it. Built from reclaimed materials, this piece is a small meditation on repair, perception, and the ways we learn to call something broken, even when it still holds beauty.
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Tool
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Upcycled wall assemblage: reclaimed frame and backing, decoupaged textbook pages, torn textbook page, frame samples/offcuts, window trim rosette corner, antique wrench, salvaged appliance components, and found wood.
In Tool, an antique wrench anchors the composition like a relic, while a torn textbook is held in place within layers of reclaimed frame wood and salvaged hardware. The title lands twice: once in metal, and again in language, the word tool appearing in the center of the page, half-hidden by the rip for anyone patient enough to notice. Decoupaged textbook papers, frame samples, a rosette corner, and components rescued from a dismantled appliances come together as a small shrine to usefulness. Here, function doesn’t disappear, it simply changes shape.
Secret Garden
Upcycled wall assemblage: reclaimed tool head, salvaged lantern door frames and glass, driftwood, vintage paper ephemera, frame samples, metal cutoffs, and assorted reclaimed hardware (nuts, bolts, springs, buckle, caster wheel, locking pin, shell, and found components).
Secret Garden is a grown-up diorama built from relics. A tiny habitat where rusted colors, worn metals, and rescued fragments become flora and fauna. Anchored by the heavy head of an unknown tool, the piece gathers playful details: a flower made from pennies with a caster-wheel stem, another bloom made from hardware, and small insect-like visitors assembled from a belt buckle, springs, nuts, and a locking pin. Salvaged lantern door frames hold amber glass and, best of all, swing open, an unexpected “please touch me” invitation that rewards curiosity. Behind that movable door, a hidden vintage Vogue clipping waits like the garden’s secret keeper. Driftwood, a shell, frame samples, bolts, and metal cutoffs complete the scene, reimagining the discarded as something quietly alive.
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No. 15
Upcycled wall assemblage: 1923 linen engineering plan (decoupaged), antique drafting board, vintage photo frame, reclaimed nuts/washers and appliance parts, rusted car spring, and vintage briefcase handle.
No. 15 begins with an antique plan drawn on linen in 1923, a precise piece of mill-and-dam engineering and a quiet showcase of drafting mastery. Decoupaged onto an antique drafting board, the drawing becomes both blueprint and artwork, its measured lines and hand-lettered notes as deliberate as any composition. A small vintage photo frame “houses” the title block like a caption in a vitrine, while scattered washers, nuts, salvaged appliance components, and a rusted broken car spring echo the circles, points, and notations of the draft itself, translating marks on paper into objects in space. Finished with a vintage briefcase handle, the piece becomes a portable relic that honors craft, history, and the surprising beauty of something made to be purely functional.
Steamed
Upcycled wall assemblage: scrap sheet metal, antique pants hanger, steam-engine maintenance textbook cover, antique medicine bottle, salvaged computer and CD-player components, angora rabbit fur, drain plug, and metal clips.
Built on scrap sheet metal, Steamed turns industry into a tiny weather system. A vintage textbook cover on maintaining steam engines becomes the heart of the piece, framed by salvaged mechanics: computer components, a CD-player fragment, metal clips, and a drain plug repurposed as a dangling weight. An antique pants hanger becomes the handle, shifting the work from wall piece to carried relic, while a small medicine bottle sits below like an offering. Then the softest element steals the scene: airy puffs of angora rabbit fur, brushed from a foster bunny, rising like steam and making the invisible visible. It’s part machine, part memory, part miniature atmosphere, proof that even metal can breathe.
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Size 11
Upcycled assemblage (interactive): scrap wood, roadside-found metal shroud, reclaimed appliance gears and parts, antique shoe form (Size 11, hinged), and frame samples.
Built from scrap wood and a roadside-found metal shroud, Size 11 balances elegance and grit. Reclaimed appliance gears gather at the top like a small constellation of mechanisms, while frame samples add a hint of ornament, as if the piece is both relic and reliquary. At its center, an antique wooden shoe form, sized 11, becomes the focal point and the invitation: it’s hinged to lift and fall like a door knocker, turning the work into something you don’t just look at, but use. In motion, it shifts from object to gesture, a playful reminder that function can be poetic and that touch can be part of seeing.
House of Lyon
Upcycled wall assemblage: vintage tabletop, antique cheese box, salvaged chess pieces, reclaimed lion from discarded wall art, turned wood offcut, and reclaimed frame elements.
House of Lyon is an upcycled assemblage that borrows the language of architecture and heraldry. Built from a vintage tabletop and an antique cheese box, it forms a house-like silhouette with a tall central niche, lined with salvaged frame fragments like stacked memories. A row of chess pieces becomes a quiet balustrade, while a small lion, rescued from discarded wall art, stands watch at the threshold beside a turned wood offcut like a sentinel. Part cabinet, part crest, House of Lyon invites the viewer to imagine lineage and story where others might only see leftovers.
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A Wheel Chair
Upcycled sculptural furniture: curb-mined chair (repaired), spare bicycle wheel, hand-painted finish.
A Wheel Chair began as a curb-mined chair with a broken backrest and ended up with a second life and a sense of humor. A spare bicycle wheel from a local bike shop becomes the new “back,” turning damage into design and giving the piece its punny title. Hand-painted in bold, playful color and pattern, it leans more toward sculpture than seating. The hub and hardware make it a less-than-cozy perch, on purpose, because this piece is about form, presence, and the delight of a repair that refuses to hide. Sittable, technically. Comfortable, not the point.
Moon Flower
Upcycled wall assemblage: wine-crate wood, roof slate, lug nuts, bottle cap, vintage buttons, leather scraps, and tape-measure metal.
Moon Flower is a small upcycled assemblage built from humble remnants: a wine-crate side, a slab of roof slate, lug nuts arranged into a stubborn little bloom, and a bottle cap moon that glints like a found coin. Vintage buttons, leather scraps, and a curl of metal from a tape measure add texture and motion, turning hard, utilitarian materials into something quietly botanical. It’s part talisman, part wildflower, proof that beauty doesn’t need softness to feel alive.
Three Flowers
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Shutter Spike
Upcycled wall assemblage: rusted metal sign, antique window shutter spike/hinge, salvaged appliance spring, and reclaimed frame samples.
Just A Shutter Spike is an upcycled assemblage that elevates a single salvaged object into the center of the frame. An antique shutter spike, weathered and sharp with history, sits against a rusted metal sign and reclaimed frame samples, held like a specimen or a relic. A spiral of appliance spring adds a quiet sense of motion, as if time itself left a fingerprint. Minimal in elements but rich in texture, the piece invites a slower look and a simple question: what makes something “just” a thing, and when does it become worth noticing?
Still, Life
Upcycled wall assemblage: reclaimed wood (vintage dresser, porch screen frame, chair back, and offcuts), assorted salvaged hardware and household components (metal, glass, springs, spirals, hooks, beads, and found parts), frame sample, leather tie, and fabric scrap.
Still, Life feels like peering through a window into a small, lived-in interior. Built from salvaged wood and a porch screen frame, it layers everyday remnants into a bouquet of found forms: tin lids and light covers become flowers, springs and spirals become stems, and tiny hardware and glass elements glint like dew. The piece rewards slow looking, almost like a “find the thing” puzzle, with details tucked everywhere: keys, tape-measure parts, beads, hooks, and bits of old devices repurposed into quiet ornament. A scrap of fabric spills beyond the frame, a deliberate gesture that pulls the scene into the viewer’s space and emphasizes the work’s dimensional, almost domestic presence.
Love @ Room Temperature
Upcycled assemblage (floor-standing): scrap wood and shelf, decorative trim and frame samples, Apple computer circuit board, thermostat/thermometer, barbed wire, hinges and hardware, bead string, paintbrush, vintage button, tissue paper, display hook, and door hanger.
Standing nearly three feet tall, Love @ Room Temperature is a playful mashup of romance and mechanics, built from reclaimed materials and a title that tells you how to read it. The “@” nods to the tech element, an Apple circuit board set like a badge near the top, while the thermostat at center still functions as a thermometer, making “room temperature” more than a metaphor. Found objects spell LOVE within the composition, surrounded by the textures of domestic life and salvage: bead string, a paintbrush, vintage button, barbed wire, hinges, trim, frame samples, and scrap wood. Equal parts totem and pun, the piece invites viewers to decode it, then rewards them with the small surprise that it’s not just symbolic, it’s still measuring the room.
