Curator, Anne Umland: The title First Landing Jump might refer to a notion of a parachute jumper, a leap into space, a leap into the void. It’s fundamentally an example of what Rauschenberg called Combines.
This Combine works with a traditional support, a canvas or a picture frame. It has things that we can name—a light reflector in the upper center, a tire that has been rendered functionless because it's impaled on that black and white street barrier. The three-dimensional objects project out of the canvas and into our space. He is composing a picture, albeit a very unconventional picture, out of the stuff of life.
So if art is a space that is framed within, in this case, a square, and life is the space that we’re in, this work is inhabiting both worlds.