Meet The Drifting Chantilly, a raft I built to manifest a vision of involving rivers, lakes and water ways to be an active participant in my art. The water is the context, reflector, and dance partner with me atop this floating performance stage. Interacting within the boundaries of water and with the immense possibilities of water, provides the engagement I am looking for. I also seek to communicate the idea of interconnectedness - as above, so below and as within, so without - the water outside and the water within me are the same. I honor them equally, thus I care about the health and joy of water for what I do to it, or with it, I do to myself. 

The Drifting Chantilly is also my floating outdoor bedroom on occasion, and will be seen on full moons floating down rivers and in mountain lakes.  The pictures below are from the first performance. The weekend inspired an event planned for late summer 2015 for environmental artists called MAKE CAMP. See that tab on this site for more information. I prefer to perform outside to set the stage for reverence and involvement of the elements which give life and movement. I invite others to join in the experience of environmental art and performance. 

A huge thanks to Sat Atma with The Oregon Soap Company for donating the barrels. The wood came from demolished Portland homes, an acknowledgement of the energy and resources disrespected and lost in these structures. A full heart thanks to Jim Robinson for the NASA grade engineering advice and Theresa Redinger for being a huge inspiration and midwife for my artistic babies. She womaned the camera in this adventure.