Strollers

`Stroller #1' 1996	`Stroller #17' 1996	`Stroller #18' 1996
`Stroller #22' 1996	`Stroller #43' 1996	`Stroller #46' 1996
`Stroller #57' 1997	`Stroller #66' 1997	`Stroller #87' 1997
	`Stroller #95' 1997

Strollers

I have been taking photographs of abandoned strollers that I find on the street for a couple of years now. My collection has grown in that time to well over one hundred strollers, found mostly in Brooklyn and the Lower East side. I took the photographs with an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera so as to preserve the "snapshot" feel of the photographs. I also attempted to shoot the strollers by themselves without any people in the picture whenever possible.

I have found some strollers that have obviously rested in the same spot for several months, but for the most part, if a stroller has been left on the street, it will not be there for very long. Despite the transitory nature of the strollers each one carries with it a certain aura. The strollers became almost "haunted" sites for me, and I came to treat each stroller with reverence. Consequentially, I never touched or altered a stroller in any way. They are monuments to not only a moment in time (a wheel breaks on the way home from the grocery store) but to the act of growing up itself. - The abandoned stroller as urban cocoon.

I plan for the collection to be presented in three different ways, on the internet, as a book, and as gallery work. The internet allows more people to view the work, while the book format lets an individual own their own copy of the collection, at a reasonable price. The optimal presentation of the strollers for gallery exhibition is poster-size digital reproductions.

GROUP SHOWS
June 1996	Art Metropole Auction, Stroller #18 Tronto, Ontario
Nov 1996	Panzerotti Five", One Hundred Strollers Free Parking, Toronto, Ontario
Feb 1995	"Bert and Ernie", paintings Store Front Gallery window, Queens Street, Toronto, Ontario
Feb 1995	"I Knew There was a Catch" Transitional Images/Transgressive Imaginations Houghton Galley, The Cooper Union, New York
BOOKS
	The following books have been distributed and sold at Printed Matter in New York Art Metropole in Toronto, as well as bookstores in; Montreal, Halifax and Vancouver. Books were produced in editions of 100 with the exception of "A Month of Jeopardy," which comprised of two editions of 250.
1992	"One Week in October"
1993	"A Month of Jeopardy"
1994	"Automotive Testimonials"
1995	"I Knew There was a Catch"
1995	"Bridge This is Engineering"
PRESS
1994	Harpers Magazine, World's Smallest Talk, excerpts "A Month of Jeopardy"
1994	CBC Radio Morning Show, interview "A Month of Jeopardy"
EDUCATION
1989-1993	BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Major in Studio, Minor in Art History