Broome Street Project Storefront, 1980's.

The building owner gutted the building and allowed me to pull the old materials out of the dumpsters, reinventing and reinstalling them in a quirky form of adaptive reuse. The Broome Street Project walls and fixtures were handmade out of what was found in the dumpster after gutting the building – the floor was made of red clay from my home state of Georgia. Friends drove a pickup truckload of buckets of clay to SoHo, NYC. A spectacular aspect of the installation process. The Zivic Brothers were collaborators; Greg Zivic, a metal worker/artist, fabricated and painstakingly hand-battered the metal mullions of the facade; and Greg’s brother, Jim Zivic (yes, the artist/furniture designer), fabricated fixtures from metal works using the thrown-away parts of the previous architecture.

The Morgan Dress became my first clothing item to be produced in the early eighties. I took the first dress off the factory table and later collaborated with a dear friend and sculptor, Frank Weeden (1960 – 2013). Weeden owned and operated an established foundry in Trenton, working with the artists of those times.

The Bronze Dress was made in 1988. This sign moved from storefront to storefront as I continued to create wild industrial site-sensitive installations in raw spaces. Each space was gutted and rebuilt in collaboration with other artist friends.