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STATEMENT OF WORK
I've had a recurring nightmare for the last 15+ years.
I encounter an aquarium (or any container with capacity to hold water—e.g. humidifiers in closets) where I suddenly realize I have been responsible for the plants and animals inside it. They are always near death— starving from my negligence in feeding them, near total evaporation of water so they are often swimming sideways at the bottom, or the tank is so intoxicated from their own waste that they are barely moving.
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I am fascinated by the predicament and contradiction in which nature has both jurisdiction over the future of humanity, as well as a complete vulnerability to our exploitation of it as resource and/or negligence of it. My work attempts to address nature as the "other", showcasing human intervention while questioning our role and what we're doing there. We find ourselves in confrontation with alien-yet-familiar subjects — hard shadows suggest human presence with light that could only be produced by the flash of a camera, or man-made replicas of said creatures. Often I draw or paint on soft, yogamat-like foam— a buoyant material that felt appropriate in bringing these topics to the "surface". The writings of of naturalist Edward. O Wilson and Goethe's ideas on "delicate empiricism" have heavily influenced my work.