Extending it's Helping Hand: part 1 "Extending it's Helping Hand" is a brief interpretation the influence and arc of the political career and life of Robert C. Janiszewski (Hudson County Executive, N.J. from 1988-2001). The video elicits inquiries into issues of shared personal and political histories and draws parallels with the archetypal Greek tragedy of the tragic figure, who’s downfall from the heights greatness is due to hubris or to some sort of tragic flaw. Janiszewski’s career as an elective official was one who rose as a reformer and fell as a convicted felon. "Extending it's Helping Hand" is part of a continuing series of multi-media work about a historical figure whose impact, deeds and misdeeds continue to reverberate in the Hudson County and New Jersey political scene.

OFFERINGS TO THE NSC - These digital outputs are combinations of my sculptures (called Liminal Offerings) with the covers of the United States National Security Council Strategy statements of 1994, 2002 and 2006. The transparent resin sculptures (half one image and half another) are my talismans, reliquaries, my philosopher’s eggs, my touchstones. By intersecting and penetrating the NSC papers and the “offerings” with each other I attempt to bring redemptive powers to these doctrines. The interposition of the offerings with the NSC covers resuscitates the wiser, generous, more liberal aspects of our national security goals and redeems the corrosive, selfish and short-sighted policies and practices.

LIMINAL OFFERINGS is an exploration of a discourse on “liminality”: the notion of sensory boundaries and thresholds across psychological, philosophical and spiritual borders. The resin “offerings” depict forms that are half one image and half another. They take the form of talismans and devotional reliquaries, while the physical property of transparency (simultaneously seeing the imagery depicted and the space behind) gives added significance to ideas of boundaries, illusionary space and spiritual transcendence. Some of these objects are also recurring images from prior bodies of work, for example, “Si, Perro” (the “head-less” dog). This installation is a meditation of my personal definition on the subject of the “liminal”.