Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Cherry-picked and cut, 2019, 20 x 16 inches.

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Cherry-picked and cut, 2019, 20 x 16 inches.

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral series memorializes the mundane, incorporating key elements of life–animal, vegetable, and mineral–into a single composed image. The body of work adds nuance to an amorphous conversation regarding individual agency in the conscious and subconscious curation of the world around us. These subject-objects are stricken from context, pared down to the essential relationships that could belong to anyone in this globalized culture. I draw attention to the voids between ourselves and those objects. While examining connections with these objects, or lack thereof, consumerist traditions of still life and portraiture are injected with an air of sadness. Through periods of feast and famine, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral trains its focus on the physicality of objecthood in the contemporary experience in its most beautiful and decadent moments.