Shelter/Place. 2020.
Wire/paper/ wood/ ink.
H, W variable, 12” deep. 30- 12” Square Panels w/ 5 Free-standing Sculptures.
The components of this installation were created during the Spring 2020 pandemic shelter-in-place months. The many real and possible forms of viruses became my point of exploration and captured my every spare moment. This is a visual journal documenting my feeling of fragmentation: Time is/was simultaneously more interrupted and more fluid and calendar-irrelevant; Socializing took the binary extremes of 24-7 proximity or isolation; Needs became untethered from actual availability requiring thoughtful recalibration; Assumptions (about everything!) turned upside-down; Information about the virus and the future turned to chaos; Extremes of income disparities and social and racial inequities popped onto center stage.

Thirty 12” x 12” wall mounted elements (wire and paper sculptures paired with associated drawings mounted to wood) and eight lightweight freestanding sculptures create movement and interaction as one explores the installation.
Direct light cast stunning shadows from the dimensional wire and translucent paper.

The Emotional Rein 2020
Wire, paint, metal foil, wood, pelxiglass, paper, screen
Two years in the making. It was started during my Artist in Residency in Paris, in 2018, when I met neuroscientist, Elim Hong, a from the Sorbonne, and we chatted about my artwork which often references biology and anatomy. We discovered a shared interest in using fine art to translate scientific research into accessible and inviting images that relay the beauty, mysteries and complexities of the scientific world. When I moved back to the US after my year in Paris, Dr. Hong and I continued to share ideas and images, and
I continued to construct, with the result of our international collaboration being “The Emotional Rein”.

The final piece is comprised of two sets of 12 14” square panels, each set depicts activity in the two lobes of the brain and the habenula, which has been triggered by ingestion of nicotine. I used imagery from Dr Hong’s research using brain images of transgenic fish that allow for clear visualization of neuronal activity.

Interview during art residency in Paris France. 2018

Introductory piece about my art residency at 59 Rivoli, 2017-2018

An invitation to echibit turned into a two month art residency in a small storefront space in Pioneer Square area of Seattle. The artist created an immersive experience filled with woven and formed wire sculptures.