Everyday: 3/16/16

Black Dust (found object, Hegewisch, Chicago, IL)

Everyday: 2/9/16

(styrofoam found on the beach, Sidi Kaouki, Morocco)

Everyday: 12/29/15

Northern Cross (found installation; rural Valle, AZ)

Everyday: 12/22/15

Piece (plaster, debris, newspaper fragment from 1946) 2015 

- excerpt from Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance, by Philip White

Everyday: 11/29/15

(found ball and hornet nest)

Pisen break/walk: café y camote

Everyday: 11/9/15

(found object)

Everyday: 10/31/15

Food in the Farther Places (Torani Real Fruit Smoothie Mix (mango) and metal) 

Everyday: 10/14/15

(hedge apples)

Everyday: 10/12/15

There is No Away (outboard motor cover) 2015

Everyday: 9/1/15

Unintentional Sculpture Made by the Mail Carrier (mail for 2017 S. Hoyne Ave, Chicago, IL) 2015

Everyday: 8/26/15

Roads to Friends (found wire, Normal, IL)

Everyday: 8/18/15

Coat Hanger and Spoiled Cucumber (intervention and photograph)

Everyday: 8/16/15

(rubber shock absorber bumpers and steel wool)

[my studio is getting more set up]

Michael E. Smith @ the Sculpture Center

Michael E. Smith - Untitled (sleeping bag, steel) 2015

Michael E. Smith - Untitled (sleeping bag, steel) 2015

 Michael E. Smith - Untitled (ceramic plates, steel pipe) 2015

 Michael E. Smith - Untitled (rocking chair) 2015

Michael E. Smith - Untitled (mugs, amplifier, printed twins) 2015

Michael E. Smith - Untitled (two channel video) 2015 

 Michael E. Smith - Untitled (garbage disposal, headgear) 2015

 Michael E. Smith - Untitled (garbage disposal, headgear) 2015

Michael E. Smith - Untitled (dolly, Nintendo Game Cube) 2015

Michael E. Smith - Untitled (bathtub, springs) 2015

 Michael E. Smith - Untitled (black lab, latex mask) 2015

Michael E. Smith - Untitled (sunflower, steel, vice grip) 2015

Michael E. Smith - Untitled (doghouse) 2015

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Then, as I walked around the neighborhood looking for some food I kept seeing things that echoed what I saw in the museum.

recent found & source material

at 39th St. and Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD

sign at B'nai Israel Cemetery, Baltimore

pre-Iftar, the Ngaiya's house, Baltimore, MD

Everyday: 7/12/15

The False Prophets (found wire)

Everyday: 6/20/15

Pillar of Sand (spiral staircase)

Everyday: 5/18/15

Graph (for Pamela Fraser) (found objects) 2015