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I am inspired primarily by nature, including politics and American culture in relation to it, and have devoted the past couple of years to making shrines and reliquaries to insects, lichens, twigs, seaweed, birds, etc...

Artist Statement:
Through appropriation, I strive to elevate and enshrine previously unnoticed and under-appreciated objects� raising them above the noise and flashing lights of modernity, to a place where they can be seen and discussed as �art.�
I draw inspiration from the combination of science and detailed artistry involved in Victorian microscope slides; the macabre yet sentimental wonder of Victorian taxidermy displays; the random oddities preserved and housed in cabinets of curiosity, and the sense of captured time found in natural history museums.

�The furnished condition is a cultural state, a change in the way we perceive ourselves, manifested in our relation to the objects around us: it consists in an inability to perceive life directly and the ensuing need to recover that lost experience from the material traces it has left behind.�

-The Artificial Kingdom,
pg. 186

Axis of Weevil

2006
KFC biscuit, microscope slides, weevil, masonite, acrylic and molding paste
4 inches

Cancers

2006
Original case, Sour Patch Kids, acrylic, molding paste, microscope slide with breast cancer specimen
Under 4 inches

Dig Deeper Denial

2006
Cenipede, feathers, acrylic + mediums, original case
4 inches

Who's in Your Head?

2006
Original case, earwigs, orange sapphires, microscope slide with human brain tissue specimen, paper and ink.
Under 4 inches

Painting Urn

2007
Layers of acrylic paint built upon each other...
5 inches

Hey Sugar, Sugar

2007
Acrylic, gummy worm, hook and line

2007
Acrylic on paper
16 x 20 inches

Falling Adrift

2007
Acrylic on paper
16 x 20 inches