Earthly Blights

I explore the potential implications of unfettered scientific curiosity and it’s unknown effects on the natural environment. When good intentions and financial barriers succumb to unregulated scientific indifference. Life is changing. A revolution of biotech innovation both deserving praise for it’s lifesaving developments and prompting fear when it advances toward agricultural experimentation and genetically altered hybridization of animals. How many times can an organism become altered before it becomes something else, Something more human and what new questions arise when the lines have blurred and natural progression is superseded for practical or nefarious intent. Is there responsibility for the by-products of such experiments and what are the implications when mythological chimeras are no longer limited to the imagination.

My work reflects these ideas in a visceral biomorphic free for all, trying to find a place for these new earthly denizens. I approach these uneasy questions with whimsical allegories as equal components inviting a closer look to these environs existing in its own cohesive reality.

The process parallels the theme of emergence by continually reworking subsequent layered surfaces and spawning an underlying depth of imagery reborn from a swirling pentimatic brew. The narrative, guided by chance, exists from an initial impetus and followed until a rhythmic balance is attained.

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