I started picking foam debris off the beach at first to throw away, but then to collect for their aesthetic qualities.  There is something significant to me about the pieces I save from the ocean in that it is the force of nature that formed, shaped and then expelled them.  

The pieces in this body of work are these found shapes, some meticulously covered in sculpted structures, others coated in swirling, tinted resin, fiberglass and inlayed drawing. 

Close inspection of the uncanny qualities in these icy landscapes and cloudy skies may lead to the assumption that they are fake. Their true ingredients being tinted gelatin and beaten egg whites.

My intent is to use the medium of photography, and our acceptance of it as documentation, to force us to examine our own understanding of the natural environment, beyond what we know as nature through familiar imagery.

I started picking foam debris off the beach at first to throw away, but then to collect for their aesthetic qualities.  There is something significant to me about the pieces I save from the ocean in that it is the force of nature that formed, shaped and then expelled them.  

The pieces in this body of work are these found shapes, some meticulously covered in sculpted structures, others coated in swirling, tinted resin, fiberglass and inlayed drawing. 

Landscape photos composed of food-stuffs, miniatures, cotton, plaster and blown flour clouds.  

These sculptures begin as trash: polystyrene- packing materials recovered from dumpsters or packaging.  I meticulously cover the foam in fiberglass and plaster, transforming the material in a way that allows for wider interpretation.  Often the sculptures are internally lit with fiber optic lights or covered in silver leaf.  The sculptures reference rocket ship control panels, spacecrafts and modernist era sculpture.  Their futuristic shapes are produced by the negative space of toasters computers or cameras, though the forms are sometimes deteriorated or broken from time and exposure. These utopian shapes reference a forgotten belief in the future, the ideal and the unattainable.

Imaginary cloud-scales created from whipped egg whites and studio lighting.