Changing an object’s material ultimately transforms how that object is perceived. I take mass consumerist icons like credit cards and cell phones and cast them in glass and chocolate as a social text on how sacred these objects are in our lives in 21st century America. Technology does not love you.
Plants were fused inside glass to be admired as more wildlife becomes extinct through forest fires and climate change. They are fossils of our time.
A shrine built to beauty and mechanical reproduction with a forest on fire on the doors.
“Petal paper” was made by pressing petals in a print press together, then framed in glass.
Nature is glorified through manmade crystals that encapsulate native species of PA.
Molds were taken of land and mirrored to represent how important land is and how climate change can affect our lands.
Snow books or books made of ice, slowly melting, serve as a metaphor for the loss of the planet’s natural recourses, like the polar ice caps, due to advancements in technology and human activity. The book was once the original form of technology, and we are slowly losing them as well, due to computers, tablets, and smart phones.
Recycled books made of plastic bags aim for sustainability.
Snow Book
Ice Book
Ice and Milk Books
Plaster Book (fossil)
Plastic Bag and Brown Paper Bag book
Liquor store bag book
Developments in electronics
science and technology
they continuously generate
social fractures
wounds
