Exhume [ 2009 - 2010 ]: These images explore the interplay between our industrial past, current development, and the natural world. I hope to intone a strong psychological undercurrent through both the iconography and the textural patinas created by the layering and collage of diverse elements. Like the 16th century Dutch still-life painters exploring the ideas of death, change and decay through their painterly representations of bones, fruit, and dead animals, I hope to explore the dynamic between industrial forms and their decay, ultimately creating a type of industrial vanitas.

Media: The bulk of these images as large murals onto poplin cloth and other textiles, including canvas, but the smaller works are also printed on archival papers.