link to Vet Center services

Welcome Home (2008-ongoing) is inspired by being an Artist in Residence at the Brooklyn Veterans Center, NY, and the title refers to the sign that greets people entering the place.

"What Do You Want to Find, When You Come Home?" (detail) 2009, Archival pigment prints of scanned handwriting. Permanent wall installation, Brooklyn Veterans Center. Answers are by people inside and outside the Vet Center.

Support Center Interiors, Figment,
Governors Island, NY, 2010

I am currently wondering about creating
an all year indoor garden and sound
installation, in this place, with female
veterans

Welcome Home: Volume One, installation,
tART@A.I.R., 2009. Curated by Kat
Griefen.

article on veterans, post-traumatic
stress disorder and pets.  

"Welcome Home: a Post-Battle Reenactment" a participatory installation, Governors Island, NY - Figment 09. The installation mirrors some of the services at the US Vet Centers, and participants sign up for a one-to-one conversation with one of my three "reenactments" - as a Vet Center director, an outreach counsellor for homeless veterans, or myself as the instigator of the Vets & Pets program (introducing pet companionship to veterans and assisting with pet adoptions.)