This work began as a diary of life and death in my backyard.  The objects I make seem to be imbued with wishful thinking... revealing an obsessive desire to stop time.  The transitory nature of the materials have sent me hunting for fish, rose petals, orchid blossoms, small animals and many other forms of organic matter.  Over the past four years, this safari into the familiar has expanded to encompass discoveries on my walks and travels and has become both a physical and ephemeral journal.

    At the same time, I began to experiment with the idea of human templates.  The large lead self-portrait pieces draw parallels between nature’s fossils and the forms in which human remains have been preserved (in reliquaries and tombs), the significance of how such remains are presented in larger architectural structures and the ritualistic use of such relics. 

     This work evokes diverse associations between biological specimens and aquatic life, between natural fossils and religious icons.  Frozen in glass or engraved into lead, remnants of living things become both meditative and provoking.  They address both our fear of death and our equally powerful curiosity over what we cannot know. They reveal the beauty of nature’s life cycles and their inevitable finality...a diary of an insect in amber, a fossil in stone.