This work is principally concerned with the contrived separation and the capricious influence that we as a species have established in relation to the natural world. While today we learn and amass facts about nature, we understand ourselves to be apart from it. The interior settings are an example of the isolating partitions that humans attempt to establish in creating this separation. However the conflict between what is natural and unnatural is in itself an implicit paradox given the fact that even the most complex technology can be reduced to organic elemental compositions. The windows open up an imagined realm where the strange organic phenomena are natural imitations of artificial elements within the interiors and the figures exist in the middle of this fabricated duality.

This separation not only exists in life but carries over in death as well. The painting “Feast” depicts an array of creatures that have strong histories of human influence be it domestic, mythological, political, anthropomorphic, etc and that would otherwise not be a threat to humans, feasting on the corporeal flesh of a person. We are the only species that attempts to deprive the earth of the very processes that reciprocate life by sealing our remains away through methods of preservation (coffins, mummification, cryogenics…) a tremendous debauchery given our wasteful exploitation and gluttonous consumption of natural resources. It is also a prodigious irony To think that our primary energy source is the compost of dead plant and animal remains (fossil fuel) and is one of the pernicious forces that is accelerating climate change. Many of the works in this series are allegories whose subject matter comes out of the conflicting dynamic between human society and our mutable conception of nature.