Time and its ability to make one feel both important and inconsequential is the subject of my recent work.
The photographs I produce speak to life’s value on an individual level, while these small sculptures suggest life’s inconsequence through the use of fossils, minerals, shells and plaster.
Collected elements are layered in plaster using various silicone forms. Once dry, the plaster is dyed using coffee, tea, ink and paint to suggest the strata of the earth that a geologist studies to locate objects in time.
These small forms are then placed precariously on a larger rock, which I typically collect on trips to mines and rivers with fossil and mineral clubs.
Titled Core, Mantle, Crust, These simple yet beautiful objects are touchstones of fragility and endurance.
