This installation expresses in a new way familiar themes that recur in my work. Previously my work has been mostly in video, now it takes shape as installation. Among these recurring themes is the Earth, and expresses concerns held for humanitarian (perhaps more correctly called "Gaian") reasons, but that are intellectual–as opposed to visceral. On the gut level, I'm more powerfully moved by technology in its myriad forms and its astonishing, even alarming ramifications and repercussions. I am particularly struck by how often we are completely surprised by these side effects and how completely they confound the expectations we may have before a given technology is actually in use, and the implied panorama of possible changes resulting from the advent of new technologies we haven't even dreamed of yet.

I'm inclined to speculate on the planet as organism and on our role as its cerebral layer. What does that suggest about the explosive growth of the Internet. What does it say about a species out of check, out of balance, out of control, and gray, grimy, crusty cities extending their asphalt ribbon tentacles endlessly and exuding poisonous fumes? It puts us in a position of being either the Cancer of the Earth or, as we make choices, creates the possibility for us to become–dare I say it?–its conscience. So every step becomes crucially important. This burden is more than my psyche can bear so I mire myself in daily vicissitudes, in the seduction of the digital domain and the glow of the CRT. The tangles of cables then become the web of entrapment out of which rises this clear vision, the altar to Gaia–with the Regalia of the Druids, which have come down to us through the Tarot, representing the dance of human life, male (the sword), female (the chalice), our social nature (the mirror/pentacle) and chance/change/process (the staves) with the addition of the book and candle (wisdom and experience). Also brought sharply into focus by these thoughts is the need for containment, like a mother contains her child, the Earth contains humankind–the mother/the mirror/the moon. The mirror while being a member of the quadrangle is also large enough to contain all in its reflection, becoming central to the piece, for, after all, the piece manifests the artist in the act of reflecting upon his existence.