Juicy Fruits

Juicy Fruits explores jewelry’s role as signifier, and a means throughout history for communicating availability, fertility, and fecundity, through the representation of a variety of foods considered to be aphrodisiacs. The work is  constructed from meticulously handsawn steel lace, formed and welded to create pieces that simultaneously read as solid, while also open and airy. The lush lace patterning traverses the entirety of surfaces, sometimes obscuring the truth of the form. In these heavily decorated objects the viewer finds a connection between nourishment and sensual arousal.

Before and After - a sculptural interpretation of life during debilitating pain and life after relieving medication

I was commissioned from late 2021 to early 2022 to create a two-sided sculpture representing how a person suffering from debilitating headaches felt before pharmaceutical help and then how her life changed once on the prescribed drug to help prevent the recurring pain. She described her life in the "before" as the "end of the world" in which "the walls were caving in" and she just wanted to remain in bed in dark isolation. The "before" side of the vignette represents her desperation within her home.

Callistemon

This is a cut metal piece. It is composed of 3 layers, 2 brass and one copper. They are hand cut. The top two layers are an image of the flower "Callistemon" or bottle brush flower. The middle layer has etching of a butterfly that was cut through with the flower image. They evolved together. The bottom layer has dna from the virus called phiX174. It was the first organism sequenced in 1977 by Frederick Sanger. It is the foundation of life and this piece. This layer is also cut through with another image of a flower.

Public Art

Public art moves us from within, moves us in its legacy and gives us a conduit to reimagine the world. This is a body of work that promotes the recovery of a collected past meant to elicit a deeper understanding and fuller perspective to the history of the United States.

LYRICOS DE LUZ

Based on the unknown alphabet that stems from the ongoing Elgreen Project universe; these "strange letters" take shape in sculptural forms, shining a light that reveals a deeper mystery.

I created these sculptural light boxes channeling Robert Indiana's words sculptures

Square Basketball

"Square Basketball" was made to explore an alternative form of a basketball, the basket hoop, and the backboard.  The work was inspired by children's shape game.  A part of the work was a painting of a basketball player unsure of the user experience of the "Square Basketball" game.  The basketball player was intended to portray LeBron James, an American professional basketball player who was known to be one of the great basketball players.  It suggested that even him would have a hard time with it.  The interactive sculpture encouraged viewers to score a basket during the gallery hours.  "Squa

Reconnected

2019 COMMISSION. NAILS, POWDER COAT

Reconnected strives to challenge an individual’s concept of perception and provokes a viewer to reconsider the complexity in that which seems mundane, The work suggests an alternate attitude towards what they consider to be inconsequential and triggers a realization of the infinite potential that can be found in anything, if only they were to take another look.

Connected

12 X 3.5 X 3.5'

POWDERCOATED NAILS.

Connected explores the power in even the smallest of influences and their potential to unite into something much greater than their individual voices. Fabricated out of thousands of fused nails, this sculpture embraces our connections and recognizes the worth of each individual, as well as our collective impact.

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