FLUSH
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Pleated, translucent fabric captures the delicate, architectural essence of mushrooms. Exploring light, texture, and color, the sculpture uses alternating shades of pink, white, and red to create dynamic shifts as light interacts with the material. Twisting, flowing forms evoke both the fragility and resilience of nature, mirroring the vibrant emergence of pink oyster mushrooms from the earth.
Flow
2024
Pleated organza and boning
Sporn
2024
Ink and Rice Paper
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This diptych of textured panels draws inspiration from the gilled underside of mushrooms. One panel features hundreds of meticulously hand-cut rice paper strips, while the other incorporates pleated paper remnants from the fabric pleating process in Flow. Hand-dyed in soft, varying tones, the strips create rhythmic patterns and shifting shadows, inviting contemplation of the beauty found in repetition and transformation.
Gills
2024
Ink and Pleated Paper
Tooth Pink
2024
Acrylic nails and glass beads
Tooth Blue
2024
Acrylic nails and glass beads
Tooth Brown
2024
Acrylic nails and glass beads
Tooth Beige
2024
Acrylic nails and glass beads
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Multiple circular panels are covered in hundreds of acrylic nails in shades of pink, white, brown, and blue, forming textured surfaces that mimic the spore-producing hymenium teeth of fungi species. At first glance, the panels appear organic, but closer inspection reveals their synthetic nature. The work underscores the tension between beauty, artifice, and the body, blurring the line between the natural and the manufactured.