Illuminated by the Light of Two Ships Passing in the Night (2009)

The ephemeral has many forms:  two strangers passing in the night; sun-dappled Monarchs migrating South; and all too familiar to us artists, fleeting bursts of inspiration evanescing like shooting stars into the darkness. This piece is an ode to moments of illumination.  The title draws from a work of conceptual art by Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942). Weiner started as a sculptor, and in 1968 began to explore language as a new medium for presenting his ideas, creating installation art that consisted solely of words imprinted on white walls. Without binding his ideas to concrete physical form, much is left to the imagination of the beholder.