In Part One of the UNSEEN allegory, Instructions and Prototypes imagines eons ago paleocontact with an unseen interdimensional intelligence attempting to share knowledge and information with the earliest settlers of the Earth.

With their discovery of "instructions" written in a strange, otherworldly language, Earth's earliest inhabitants collaborated to produce crude but earnestly made multivalent objects in an attempt to bridge from what they knew to what would be incomprehensible to them.

"Instructions and Prototypes" explores the creative process itself, from the mysterious arrival of inspiration to the elusiveness of translating the vapor of thoughts and ideas into representative form.

[The complete exhibit premiered May 23, 2026, at Laura Sams Gallery 506]

"Overture" (top row: various objects each approx. 36", tar, hemp, wax, on ash, pine, osage, cedar bottom: assorted tools of stone, hickory, knapped flint, churt, hemp, tar), 2025-26

Instructions:

The Heavens, 65" x 53", oil, pigment, jewels, goldleaf, on canvas, 2026

The Arrival, 65" x 53", oil, enamel, objects, on canvas, 2026

The Discovery, 65" x 53", acrylic, oil, pigment, glitter, on canvas, 2025

The Transmitter, 65"x 53", acrylic, oil, glitter, crushed glass, on canvas, 2025

The Receiver, 65" x 53", acrylic, oil, pigment, copper leaf over objects, on canvas, 2026

The Apparition, 65" x 53", acrylic. oil, pigment, glitter, on canvas, 2026

In The Egyptian Style, 65" x 53", oil, enamel, pigment, goldleaf, on canvas, 2025

The Dawn of Collective Memory, 65"x 53", oxidized copper paint on canvas, 2026

Prototypes, each approx. 18" x 30", oxidized iron, copper, brass, aluminum, bronze, on wood, 2025-26

"To Harness the Power of The Sky", 12 objects, ea. approx. 6" x 30", copper, bronze, goldleaf, on wood, 2025-26

Prototypes, each approx. 18" x 30", oxidized iron, bronze, enamel, on wood, 2025-26

Installation View, "Instructions and Prototypes" 2025-26

Installation View, "Instructions and Prototypes", 2025-26