Hand cut (jigsaw) plywood, water based spray, nails, pattern traced from found branch with wood boring beetle larvae trails (on display within the vitrine in the center of the gallery) 2017.
Note: This installation is part of an ongoing environmentally focused sculpture project "Paths of Consumption" which recreates at exaggerated scale, found patterns eaten out of trees and garden plants by a variety of insect larvae. The patterns are formed by many thousands upon thousands of small bites over time…
Overview of "Small Bites" (Part I) - Solo Exhibition in Two parts at The University of Montevallo near Birmingham, AL. August - October 2020.
Various found flora, fauna, insect, and man-made specimen including molten metal, water and aerosol based spray, resin, wire, fun. Site specific display - contents and dimensions variable, 2017-2020
Words hand cut (scroll saw) from re-purposed museum exhibition signage, water based spray paint, old art paper eaten through by insects used as stencils, acrylic, nails. 2018.
Note: This installation is an enlarged reproduc-tion of a found story handwritten in pencil on 8.5" x 11" paper by an anonymous young person who lives in the south side of St. Petersburg, FL.
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Branches from one Eucalyptus tree retrieved from my roof following hurricane Irma in 2017, water based spray, acrylic, oil, wire. 2017 & 2019.
Torpedo grass rhizome roots I dug up and removed from the ground, re-purposed heavy gauge picture hanging wire that I un-wove and threaded through the roots, floral wire, water-based spray, acrylic. 2018
Note: Theses materials have been formed into a 1:1 scale reproduction of the cracks that formed over time within the figures of Adam and Eve on the 6th ceiling panel of the Sistine Chapel which depicts the “Temptation” and “Expulsion” narrative from the book of Genesis.
Salvaged 2x4 lumber (originally used in an ephemeral art installation in 2003) partially consumed by a termite colony, water and solvent based spray, acrylic, gallery wall white paint. 2019, (5 pieces) Dimensions variable
Salvaged 2x4 lumber (originally used in an ephemeral art installation in 2003) partially consumed by a termite colony, water and solvent based spray, acrylic, gallery wall white paint. 2019, (5 pieces) Dimensions variable
Salvaged building materials partially consumed by termite colonies, water based spray, acrylic, house paint, gallery wall paint. 2019
Hand cut (jigsaw) plywood, water based aerosol, pattern traced from found cedar branch with bark beetle egg gallery (larvae trails) 2017.
Acrylic and aerosol on plywood. 2017
Note: This painting is a 1:1 scale reproduction of the cracks that appeared over time in the Casper David Friedrich painting “Wanderer Above A Sea of Mist” (1819, Oil on Canvas, 37.3 in x 29.4 in)
Hand cut stencils, re-purposed museum exhibi-tion signage, water based spray. 2018.
Note: The source patterns from top left repro-duced at varied scales... 1. Wood boring beetle larvae paths, 2. Dead mangrove tree bark, 3. Hand drawn circuit board, 4. Drawing by artist with special needs, 5. Outline of Photo taken by my grandmother of the me as a child, 6. Leaf miner paths.
Lichen pattern found on random fallen forest branch (original pattern is smaller than .25” ), hand-cut re-purposed Aluplast, found U.S. road map from 1965, 2019.
Leaf miner larvae paths collected from multiple leaves on one plant, found historic maps (1957) of the Smokey Mountain region, writing ink, hand-cut re-purposed Aluplast. dimensions variable, 2019.
Lichen pattern found on random fallen forest branch (original pattern is smaller than .25”), hand-cut re-purposed Aluplast, vinyl, 2019.
