Gateway to the Raven's Nest
This piece invites the viewer into a sacred space where life, death, and transformation meet.
Mixed Media
Found Objects
Aves Sculpting Clay
Acrylic Pain
Faux Sinew
Raven Skull
Crow Skull
Dyed Papers
Duran’s Wax
Irish Waxed linen
Copper Wire
Acrylic
Wood
9” x 9.5” x 16”
2025
Gateway to the Raven's Nest
Birdseye View
Gateway to the Raven's Nest
You are invited into a liminal space where life, death, and rebirth converge. A raven skulls stand as a silent sentinels, its watchful gaze overseeing the nest formed from raven eggs, feathers, and organic materials. The piece reflects the raven's role as a messenger, guiding one through thresholds and cycles, where every ending births a new beginning. The boundaries between life and death, stillness and movement, are woven together, suggesting the constant flow of life’s transitions.
The Stitch Between Fire and Faith
Materials: Cave Paper papers, 17th Century Danish Bible Pages, Fabric, Irish Waxed Linen Thread, Kozo Lace Papers, Kozo Beaten Paper Strips
Size: 15"x11"x4.5"
2025
The Stitch Between Fire and Faith
The Stitch Between Fire and Faith is a tactile elegy for what has been lost, and what resists loss. At its core lies a burnt book, composed of 17th-century Bible pages, their sacred text singed by time and flame. The brittle edges and charred lines speak to the violent history of censorship and the fragility of belief systems under siege.
Proof of Presence: A Lens into Forgotten Lives
Materials: Wooden box, Vintage handle, Vintage ruler, Black & White contact sheets (behind mica), Composite mica, Mini Light, Tintype photos, Optician glasses,, Voigtländer Camera, Vivitar Camera lens, Film containers (3), Vivitar Camera Lens Leather Case, Bamboo, Sterling silver salt container, Metal found object, Irish linen thread, Miniature film crew and equipment, Acrylic paint, Copper nails
Size: 12"x10"x5.5"
2025
Proof of Presence: A Lens into Forgotten Lives
The piece explores photography not only as a tool of documentation but as a vessel of presence. These anonymous faces, once framed in pride, now drifting in obscurity, are gathered here as sacred witnesses. Arranged like artifacts in a cabinet of curiosity, they ask us to consider what it means to be seen, remembered, or forgotten.
Proof of Presence: A Lens into Forgotten Lives
The act of looking becomes a ritual. The viewer becomes participant, standing at the threshold between past and present, reality and artifact, and the quiet dignity of lives once lived.
Intersections
Quotes: "Once you commodify your gift you lose community." - Unknown Author
"Wisdom Hovers on the Horizon of Death" - Katherine Engen
2025
Intersections
This cabinet explores the threshold between life and death, nature and ritual, memory and transformation. Bones, feathers, vials, and remnants from the natural world become artifacts of shapeshifting, silent witnesses to what passes between seen and unseen realms. Intersections invites quiet reflection on the beauty and mystery held in the spaces where worlds overlap.
Intersections
Materials: Raven claw hook, silk carrier rods, Crow Skull, leather, Magpie wing, bird backbone (may be 3-D printed), bottles , Mica, small animal bones & teeth.
Bottle Contents: Wisdom tooth, Chrysalis, Dew drops, Wish bones, Seeds of reverence, Moon soaked river water, Star dust
Intersections
Materials: Crystal ball, Giant Leopard Moth attached to a sheet of mica, Shapeshifter ermine girl, Handmade burnt book with handmade papers, Shapeshifter shell boy.
1. Snake skin coming out of bottle to wrap around and devour itself.
2. Handmade Crystal pendulum.
3. Two Sentries.
Left: Filled with Fir Oil & Gold leaf
Right: Filled with Copper Leaf & Abundance Oil
Seshat’s Vault
Seshat’s Vault is an imagined reliquary honoring Seshat, the Egyptian goddess of writing, knowledge, and celestial record-keeping. In this piece, tools of inscription, both real and symbolic, are collected like sacred artifacts.
The vault is both shrine and archive: a space where the act of mark-making becomes sacred, and where knowledge isn’t simply stored, but revered.
Seshat’s Vault
Materials: Do-Si-Do Book, Cave Papers, Eco Dyed Papers, Rusted Metal Objects, Irish Waxed Linen Thread
Leather Book materials: Mica, metal, fabric, Paste Papers,
Irish Waxed Linen Ahead
Brush/Pen Materials: Spark Plug, Skunk Tail, Faux Sinew, Buddha Belly Bamboo, Acrylic Paint, Bead, Nib
Other Materials: Chicken foot, Pencil, Sterling Silver Contain for ink, Brass Burner for wax, Vintage Bottle with Walnut, Crystals, Nail Stopper, Vintage Bottle with Nibs, Graphite wrapped in Japanese Paper, Leather, tied with waxed Irish linen thread, Sealing Wax
Bolt for Seal
Vintage Bottle: Bone Folder made from Deer Bone, faux Sinew
Box Front:
Found metal objects, Mica, Vintage Doll eyes
Question on Wheel:
Is it true they scatter
Transparent letters across the sky?
-Pablo Neruda The Book of Questions
2024
Seshat’s Vault
By evoking the mythic keeper of divine words, Seshat’s Vault offers a reflection on the enduring power of writing, the mystery of forgotten tools, and the idea that every mark we make may live far beyond us, as a spell, a map, or a memory.
Nature's Prayer
Materials: Cave Paper papers, Handmade Lace Paper from Kobo
Accordion Binding, Wax Irish Linen Thread, Snake Skin, Plant material, Feathers, Jungle Nymph Weird bug.
Brush Materials: Bamboo, Animal fur, Irish Linen Thread, Miniature figure. Other Materials: Wooden Box, Metal rusted disc, Composite mica, Copper nails, Leather backing
Size: 17”x 5”x6.5"
2025
Nature's Prayer
Nestled in the crotch of a branch, a miniature figure. This human presence, small and aware, acknowledges our place not as masters of nature but as part of its living archive. The mica frame grounds the piece in earth’s elemental memory, while the elevated insect body, suspended in stillness, suggests metamorphosis, myth, and the quiet intelligence of the wild.
The Tyrant’s Tome: Ladders of Illiteracy
Threaded through the void are thin, precarious ladders suggesting rescue. Now they stand for something more insidious: the climb toward promises that were never meant to be kept. Each ladder points to an illusory escape dreampt up by a demagogue who dismantles education to tighten his grip. The higher the figures reach, the clearer the deception becomes; the rungs ascend only into emptiness, leading to the very cage they hoped to leave behind.
Materials: Wood, Waxed Irish Linen Thread
Found Objects. Miniature People, Mica
2025
Brush: The Curious Cabinet of Kangaroo Queens and Monkey Myths
The Curious Cabinet of Kangaroo Queens and Monkey Myths opens into a world where folklore and imagination entwine. A regal kangaroo, crowned in petals and poise, reigns over an interior landscape inhabited by golden monkeys and shadowed by forgotten creatures, mummified frogs and weathered branches recalling ancient forest offerings.
Atop the cabinet sits a hand-crafted brush, half scepter, half totem, bridging utility and ritual. This is a box of transformation: where the animal becomes sovereign, the tool becomes symbol, and the natural world becomes both subject and co-creator.
The Curious Cabinet of Kangaroo Queens and Monkey Myths
Materials: Bamboo, Animal Hair, Irish Waxed Linen Thread, Dog Wood Branches, Mummified Frogs, Acrylic Paint.
Size: 13"x2.5"x2.5"
2021