Life Support Systems
Dimensions: 7′ x 6′ x 8″
Materials: Live goldfish, technical glass, Plexiglas, rubber stoppers, luan, and a mahogany veneer background
Date: 1982
Life Support Systems was part of my first museum exhibition at the Minnesota Museum of Art in St. Paul. It was a three-person show featuring myself, Mark McGinnis, and Aldo Moroni.
This installation explored the delicate relationship between biological life and the systems that contain and sustain it. Using live goldfish enclosed in transparent, technical materials, the piece offered a quiet meditation on fragility, control, and survival.
The exhibition also included Wax Globe, a collaborative piece created with Aldo Moroni, Jr. That collaboration marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship—one rooted in art, imagination, and shared purpose.
Aldo passed away about five years ago, but his spirit continues. I now work out of the very studio I helped build with him and Lisa Roy. It’s filled with his work and energy. We call it Legacy Maker Place—a name Aldo dreamed up, and a vision I’m proud to carry forward.