2023

Direct-cast  recycled bottle glass, hackberry

Ichor is part of a series of direct-cast works, an ongoing investigation of the relationship of preservation between nature and humans. The two materials, glass and plant, imprint one another in equal measure; this is both a sculpture and printmaking process. Concurrent with the development of my direct-casting process, I have been steeping in the scholarship of vegetal theory— the two practices now inform one another. Ichor, and others in the series, encourage us to consider, and reconsider through the lens of plant life, growth, excess, potential, survival. We live in a time of anthropocene crisis; humans alter the environment, the environment alters humans, and preservation is inherently mutual because we are nature.