TOOLKIT SERIES

The sculptures in the TOOLKIT series began as small notebook studies that were then scaled up and translated into templates to serve as guides for the building of the final pieces in clay. As I developed the series I drew from a vocabulary of forms derived from animal and plant forms, bones and shells, tools and architectural elements, to develop a language that explores the passion, vulnerability and fragility of life, the mutability of species and the fragility of the environment in the face of science and technology. These pieces stand as metaphors for the oppositional relationship between nature and human culture.