Land_escape Sculpture

I am a fine artist with a background in medicine. My art practice incorporates nature, animal rights, the environment, and microbiology. I am interested in naturally produced materials that are exceptional in their physical and chemical properties, produced by nature, and which can be manipulated and explored through artistic process, such as spider webs, bread mold, and slime mold. During my artistic process I change the naturally derived and synthetically produced material’s physical and visual properties to create a new environment or object. The artificial, human-made, a polluted environment, where the line between what is natural and synthetic is blurring, offering optical illusion; the landscape that is dramatically changed that has become a reflection of us, where animals are objectified and kept under control. At the end each material takes a different shape, changing it's visual or physical properties. It is as much about the creation of an art object using the natural material as it is about the ability to participate in the process of creation. To collaborate with nature, to take a different and unexpected shape that without my interference would never appear.