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Zoological Works
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I was fortunate to have access to an antique specimen collection from the Biology Department where I taught. Specimens were taken to my studio to be photographed and in most cases exist as a tribute to their magnificence and to the sacrifice they made to satisfy human curiosity and study.
Group 1-Stills
Group Two- Nobilis-in-Morte. This series was informed by the tradition of still life painting where game was often employed for Romantic effect. Here, I am attempting to create tensions between life and death, horror and beauty.
Group 3- ​Man and Beast. This series explores the often uncomfortable relationship between humans and other species and humans' willingness to rule over nature for convenience and profit. Skeletal remains came from a burial area at a zoo.
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  • Home
  • About
    • Overview
    • cv
    • Essay
  • Contact
  • Galleries
    • Zoological Works
    • Altered Landscapes >
      • Earth Poems
      • Landscape Interventions
      • The Photographs Within
    • Perpetuum Mortale
    • Early Stills and Modern Methods
    • Experiments, Constructions, Prototypes
    • Odd Odes
    • Of Fact and Fiction
    • Scanning Projects >
      • Homage to Holst
      • Paint Lid Scans, 2021
    • Circa 20th C.
    • Elegies
    • Text and Appropriation
    • Photographic Drawings
    • Social Landscape