As a native of California, the clay state, I love turning clay to stone.
I am inspired & anchored by nature’s no-waste complexity.
I also love birds…They thrill me when they visit my garden of native plants, that attract the insects that thrill them. While writing this statement I spotted 16 species including some with fledglings here in East Oakland.
They won’t all make-it. They have to survive feral cats, pesticides in neighbors’ yards leaching into the creek, and lack of habitat to build the next nest.
Let’s plant more native plants to attract the most critical bird-baby-food⏤ yummy soft caterpillars! The entire food web depends on insects for all those who eat.
My piece One Nest is from my series Canary & Elephants. Each piece includes a yellow, cautionary canary alerting us to different social and ecojustice issues. The challenge— the BIG choices we need to make to remove the profit-driven, corporate Elephants-in-the-Room.
My first image of One Nest formed upon hearing of the Yemen famine in 2017 & the UN warning in 2018 that 13 million people there faced starvation in “the worst famine in the world in 100 years.” The final sculpture expanded to a larger world view⏤ to imply all species and how we sustain ourselves. One Nest’s final shape (Yes, it’s shaped like a STOP sign!) was inspired by artist Elizabeth Addison’s digital assemblage mandalas and our duo collaboration we are calling, O.N.E. standing for One Nest Earthworks.
One Nest is from my Canary & Elephant Series. Each piece includes a yellow, canary-in-the-coal-mine, alerting us to different social and ecojustice issues. The challenge— the BIG choices we need to make to remove the profit-driven, corporate Elephants-in-the-Room.
Clay has a memory. It records your fingerprints and all the ways you held it in your hands. Our earth has a memory and responds to our manipulations. My work in clay draws from the knowledge that everything…us, food, home, clothes, tools, toys all come from the ‘clay’ of the earth.
My hope— we will seek JUST solutions to grow, gather, love & consume. Leaving the smallest fingerprint.
I feel an urgency to create art in this revolutionary time and
value clay’s infinite potential − mirroring our own.
I am inspired & anchored by nature’s no-waste complexity.
I also love birds…They thrill me when they visit my garden of native plants, that attract the insects that thrill them. While writing this statement I spotted 16 species including some with fledglings here in East Oakland.
They won’t all make-it. They have to survive feral cats, pesticides in neighbors’ yards leaching into the creek, and lack of habitat to build the next nest.
Let’s plant more native plants to attract the most critical bird-baby-food⏤ yummy soft caterpillars! The entire food web depends on insects for all those who eat.
My piece One Nest is from my series Canary & Elephants. Each piece includes a yellow, cautionary canary alerting us to different social and ecojustice issues. The challenge— the BIG choices we need to make to remove the profit-driven, corporate Elephants-in-the-Room.
My first image of One Nest formed upon hearing of the Yemen famine in 2017 & the UN warning in 2018 that 13 million people there faced starvation in “the worst famine in the world in 100 years.” The final sculpture expanded to a larger world view⏤ to imply all species and how we sustain ourselves. One Nest’s final shape (Yes, it’s shaped like a STOP sign!) was inspired by artist Elizabeth Addison’s digital assemblage mandalas and our duo collaboration we are calling, O.N.E. standing for One Nest Earthworks.
One Nest is from my Canary & Elephant Series. Each piece includes a yellow, canary-in-the-coal-mine, alerting us to different social and ecojustice issues. The challenge— the BIG choices we need to make to remove the profit-driven, corporate Elephants-in-the-Room.
Clay has a memory. It records your fingerprints and all the ways you held it in your hands. Our earth has a memory and responds to our manipulations. My work in clay draws from the knowledge that everything…us, food, home, clothes, tools, toys all come from the ‘clay’ of the earth.
My hope— we will seek JUST solutions to grow, gather, love & consume. Leaving the smallest fingerprint.
I feel an urgency to create art in this revolutionary time and
value clay’s infinite potential − mirroring our own.