Statement

Deeply rooted in the biological world, my work exists as a distinctive artificial reality. I am fascinated with the inherent qualities of life and the importance we grant them. Anomaly and normality, virility and frailty, beauty and repulsion are each inherited traits that exist simultaneously and often inharmoniously in the natural world.

Using both natural and artificial materials, I create imaginary hybrid species that are delicate, alluring, and sometimes awkward or disturbing. I am interested in blurring lines, creating the indefinable, and manipulating the senses; leaving the viewer without a point of reference.

Much of my work questions ideals of beauty and the way in which we manipulate nature and ourselves to attain it. I often refer to the eccentric drawings of German biologist, Ernst Haeckel, for visual inspiration. His enduring images of plants, animals and microorganisms depict life forms in intimate detail. I too wish to share each tentacle, shoot and antennae in beautiful, grotesque reality.