Perpetuity of the Shelf Fungus
This piece explores the temporal relationship between the natural and manufactured through permanence and decay. The role of the shelf fungus, as a temporary growth, is subverted by its permanence. The tree decays before the art piece. The understated nature of the piece makes it easy to overlook and dismiss as yet another mushroom growing on a tree. It is a piece that needs to be noticed and discovered. It is not art until it is discovered. It is up to the viewer to decide what it means and why it exists.
Wild Apples (The Fruit of Labour)
Cast from 14 found wild apples with the sand casting method to emphasize the strange beauty of wild apples. This piece treads the line between the found and made, the idealized and imperfect. The wrinkly, misshapen forms of the apples are monumentalized and this questions the value associated with the perfect grocery store apple as opposed to the foraged wild apple. Additionally, the piece draws attention to the labour inherent in the processes of foraging and bronze casting and how this labour of love creates value in something seemingly worthless.