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Seed Series

 This series is  inspired by scanning electron microscope images of seeds. Seeds are visually beautiful, even more so when knowing that everything about the shape and anatomy of a seed serves a function: from reaching a suitable habitat to grow in, laying in wait until conditions are optimal, and then sprouting. The art pieces are named after how that particular seed travels to a suitable place to grow. For instance, floating seeds, belonging usually to grasses, travel on the wind like kites or balloons. Seeds with hooks and spikes attach to the fur of animals to reach their final destination. Some instead contain food for insects, who drag the seed back to their underground nest as a feast. Other seeds drop from a mother plant and drill holes into the earth through a series of complex movements activated by soil water levels. You can see hints of those adaptations below, as each art piece was closely modeled from a specific seed image. 

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Hitch Hiker

Wall Piece

2023

3in x 5in x 3in

Ceramic, Stains, Glaze

$350

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Burrower

Wall Piece

2023

Ceramic, Stains, Beeswax

7in x 4in x 4in

$350

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Ant Burial

Wall Piece

2023

Ceramic, Stains, Beeswax

5in x 5in x 4in

$400

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Water Drifter

Wall Piece

2023

Ceramic, Stains, Beeswax

5in x 5in x 3in

$350

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Floater, no. 2

Wall Piece

2023

Ceramic, Stain, Beeswax

6in x 3in x 3in

$350

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Floater, no. 1 

Wall Piece

2023

Ceramic, Stain, Beeswax

6in x 3in x 3in

$350

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Orchid Seed

Wall Piece

2023

Ceramic

17in x 2in x 2in

$550

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Wall Piece

2023

Ceramic

24in x 28in x 3in

SOLD

The Jazz You Left Behind

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Floating Vanilla Seeds

Wall Piece

2023

Ceramic

3ft x 2ft x 4in

$750

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Hollyhock Seed

Wall Piece

2023

Ceramic

13in x 16in x 3in

$600

 

Artist Statement:

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I am drawn to organic forms. In nature, form dictates function: a feather, the interior of an ant hill, a crustacean’s shell. I’m also deeply interested in how time shows its effects, through how mountains wear, water carves river beds, and organic matter decays. I make work about line and form, with often heavy textural surface treatments. Exploration and experimentation plays a large role in my process of creating the forms.  I hope to invoke questions in the viewer, and a deeper appreciation for the natural world. 

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