THE URGE TO SUSPEND WHAT ISN’T KEPT #1-8

Epoxy resin, lichen, tin foil, honeycomb, apple, bra strap, cardboard packaging, plastic wrap, litmus paper, milkweed, oyster mushrooms, rose petals, hair, balloon, mandarin orange, masking tape, mycelium, straw, confetti, sumac leaves, efflorescence, brick, mold

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The experience of coming back into the studios after six months with everything just as it was, like a kind of rapture had taken place, was jarring. Leftover coffee cups were molding and my bacterial specimens had dried and other strains had taken them over. All I could do to process this experience was to take all the garbage, tear it into small pieces, and suspend it in resin with lichen. The lichen would leech out pigment and colour the whole cast. This process of having the lichen affect the trash within these small sculptures and then freeze in these moments of interaction began to make me feel like something could still come of all the lost time – not a recycling, but a transformation.