PORTRAIT SERIES
Drawing from ontogeny and developmental biology, the Portrait Series explores an object’s evolution through a form of sculptural portraiture. Rooted in an ongoing investigation of life’s cycles, the work examines the entropic process and the intersection of botanical, anatomical, and industrial systems. Each piece visually scripts the imagined transformation of a form, mimicking how a cell elongates, inverts, and folds into complexity.
Organic, discarded, and precious materials merge with intimate, domestic techniques to shape both image and structure. Through abstraction and embellishment, layers of association are revealed, suggesting a genesis—literal and symbolic—a zygote unfolding into being. As wearable objects, the works in the Portrait Series position the body as site, source, and field of experience, anchoring transformation in lived, physical space.
Portrait Series, 2006 - 2009
Gut, steel.
Portrait Series, 2006 - 2009
Detail: Gut, steel.
Portrait (Somite) #7, 2006 - 2009
Gut, steel, thread, sterling silver
3.75” x 2.75” x 1.5”
Electroformed copper, enamel, steel, thread, sterling silver. 3.25” x 1.5” x 1.25”
Portrait #8, 2006 - 2009
Gut, plastic, pollen, sterling silver
5.5” X 3.5” X .75”
Portrait #6, 2006 - 2009
Gut, steel, sterling silver
5” x 4” x .5”
Portrait #1, 2006 - 2009
Portrait #41/1, 2006 - 2009
Gut, thread, sterling silver
6.5” x 4.5” x .5”
Gut, sterling silver
3.75” x 3.75” X .5
Portrait #2, 2006 - 2009