How can a parasitic fungi that infects insects influence fashion?
Can weaving help us look at and understand ‘deep time’ in geology?
How can we see beauty and majestic life in animals commonly considered ‘pests’?
These are the type of questions I constantly ask when creating work in my practice.
Where does science and art intersect?
In the age of extreme environmental pollution, human creativity has to adapt.
All of my pieces are made from 50-100% recycled materials.
I often use plastic, paper, and fiber waste but also recycled metals, found pencils, pens, and paint.
This is an environmental concern and a financial one as everything becomes more and more expensive in our inflation economy. Art materials are especially expensive but found items are free and minimize waste that may end up in landfills, oceans, lakes, and our local neighborhoods.
Science in Art
Evolution
I have always been fascinated with evolution, it is the crossroads of history and biology.
This is where my love for the time scale and life has come from, the beauty of survival and ever changing creatures, which I capture in my drawings, weavings, and garments.
Arachnocology
Spiders are considered the first weavers in many global folktales, and it can be argued that science considers them that as well.
Making a home and trap out of threads from their body, they occupy a space of fascinating beauty and grotesque horror in collective consciousness.
But for me they are the most beautiful!
Urban animals
Growing up in an urban metropolis, i’ve seen many animals make the polluted urban jungle their home, and they’ve also made a home in my inspiration.
All of my pieces are influenced by these urban animals, especially my rat hat garment and many of my illustrations.
I am an artist born and raised on the semi-industrial edge of Chicago, and I am currently pursuing a BFA at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, with a focus in Fiber and Textile Manipulation. The identity of the city I grew up in influences my work, especially how industrial pollution and the ‘trash’ of overconsumption impacts poor and low-income populations in urban areas. Using traditional ‘trash’ and textile waste I make works that explore humans' historical relation to our environment, with heavy emphasis on my own biological, geological, and anthropological research.
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