Rumme: The Living River: The Pajaro River Watershed Experience was a collection of work from more than 40 local artists to bring awareness to the social and legal issues surrounding the Pajaro River with a watershed crossing 4 counties. The exhibit, directed by Lois Robin and Jennifer Colby, opened at the Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery in Watsonville on January 9, 2004, and later travelled to Gallery Tonantzin in San Juan Batista and the Gavilan College Library in Gilroy.

The Creeks of Salinas: The Gabilan Watershed Experience, also directed by Jennifer Colby, was an exhibit similar to the Pajaro. It celebrates the ecological address of Salinas, Prunedale and Castroville by following the course of the water that lands on the Pacific side of the Gabilans and Fremont peak. It opened at The National Steinbeck Center on February 5, 2010, and later travelled to the Salinas Libraries.

The Disappeared was an exhibit I did early in 2009 with photographer Nancy Raven and watercolorist Ann Downs, and it forced me to crystallize a body of work I’d been building since 1996 on the theme of the earth retaking the “things of man.” It includes the ruins of Fort Ord on the Monterey Bay, the generations of cars parked in Lewis Creek in Monterey County, the mining ghost town of Granite in Montana, and a number of other similar subjects. I continue to add to this collection as the subject matter reveals itself.