CURIOUS GROWTHS

This work consists of tangled clusters of fleshy formations that evoke botanical or zoological specimens. I’m interested in ambiguity and contradiction and want these pieces to suggest familiar forms while remaining open to various associations. My inspirations include the botanical photographs of Karl Blossfeldt, the biological engravings of Ernst Haeckel, and the glass scientific models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka.  I’ve always been fascinated by the human inclination to seek out and gather odd and novel objects for personal contemplation and public display, an urge exemplified by the “WunderKammer” or cabinets of curiosities of Renaissance Europe.  In these pieces, I’m making my oddities and arranging them in compositions meant to elicit a sense of wonder and inquisitiveness.