UNDER FRAGILE SKIES
These delicate and alluring works depict hybrid plant and animal organisms appropriated from the eccentric drawings of German biologist Ernst Haeckel. Displayed beneath glass domes, the sculptures become hermetic specimens, quarantined and of unknown origin.
False Spring
(outside view) wood, acrylic panels, steel, mixed media 9'x5'x6'
False Spring
(detail inside)
Groom
polymer clay, acrylic paint, glass, steel, mixed media 56"x9"x14"
Fluff and Fuss
polymer clay, acrylic paint, glass, steel, mixed media 56"x9"x14"
Preen
polymer clay, acrylic paint, glass, steel, mixed media 56"x9"x14"
Gussy
polymer clay, acrylic paint, glass, steel, mixed media 56"x9"x14"
Spruce
polymer clay, acrylic paint, glass, steel, mixed media 52"x8"x12"
Under Fragile Skies
(installation view)
Under Fragile Skies
(installation view)