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I am exploring liminal spaces, thresholds that exist between worlds.  Specifically I am looking at the intersections that exist between nature and people, a connection that inspires stories, religions, and sciences.  The installation creates a space, a physical atmosphere, that can be stepped into, a new realm of inbetweens. The world is not continuous perfection or glee, whimsy can be sorrowful and within decay there are new beginnings.  Magic and wonder is created when these moments collide. I want to bring people to a place that allows for curiosity and exploration of these dichotomies, an environment with macro and micro experiences that push and pull our attention.  Experiencing smaller moments that are personal and precious and bigger moments that are grand, and mystical. Hosted in the collection are insects that no longer have life in them and are slowly deteriorating. Although their wings no longer serve their purpose they are beautiful.  I want to embrace the innate fascination that children have towards something as insignificant as an insect. Without preconceived notions everything is new, barriers to perception are removed.  

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I collect all that is around me, organic found materials and  human made objects alike. I even collect the stories that people tell, the important histories and joyful moments they deem precious enough to give, memories that are tied to objects and places.  The emotional and physical presence of things I use in tandem within this project. Hanging, I have a branch, upside down and dying, it is no longer attached to anything living and for all it seems it is death.  What is the preciousness that separates it from where it was before? What will it become? 

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I am inspired by cabinets of curiosity, poison gardens, and fairy tales.  They all contain the natural world in a cultivated space that relies on context and process, not simply product.  They are created through an individual's own lens and when others view it they bring their lenses, their ways of thinking, and create something slightly different from the original.  These worlds can exist for a fleeting moment, or last lifetimes, and some simply remain hidden.  These minute moments are precious and deserve close inspection.