Rivers change as they remain the same. While their waters constantly flow, their sediments accrete layer upon layer. I use water and stones from the Hudson River to construct sculptures, and sediment from various rivers to make drawings.

"Emergences" is the name of an ongoing series of sculpture installations that I am creating on the shores of the Hudson River. Although each installation is site-specific, they all consist of natural stones arranged to reveal the rhythmic cycles of emergence and submergence created twice a day by the river tides. At high tide the sculptures are submerged in the river. The waters claim my art. At low tide they reappear and then the earth reclaims them.

The pieces manifest the relationship between culture and nature, visibility and invisibility, the illusion of permanence and the reality of impermanence. Merging with their surroundings, the pieces resonate with the ever-changing currents of the waters, the weather, and the seasons. In turn they echo our own existence. Human life unfolds like "Emergences."

Moment to moment, the sculptures remain sculptures and we remain ourselves. Yet both the sculptures and we are in a perpetual state of flux. Some of the changes are predictable, others are unexpected; some are gradual and barely perceptible, others are sudden and dramatic. These pieces have no edges and no fixed dimensions. They are revealed and concealed in slow time.