Description

My work generally draws from anatomical and botanical forms. Flowers and fruits are common inspirations that I use, based in my interest and background in biology as well as their metaphorical connections to ideas of inspiration, life, growth, fecundity and the like. These elements are typically abstracted, drawing partly from the aesthetic of Southeast (and particularly Mvskoke) abstract floral beadwork, and partly to suggest new, fictional anatomies. Here the floral imagery is much more literal. Composed of reclaimed textiles, found and disassembled artificial flowers, and acrylic resin; glossy surfaces and candy colors in contrast with the “natural” floral and botanical imagery combine with these objects intended to sit with the human body. With this work I am playing with ideas around the natural and the synthetic (a distinction which I believe to be largely false), the moralization of our perception of these two ideas, and the realization that the process of preservation nearly always requires the death of the preserved.