Detail of Myrtle. Lace sleeve sprouting leaves and flowers.
Detail of Myrtle. Lace sleeve sprouting leaves and flowers.
Large ice blocks with embedded garments created during an art residency in Banff Alberta, Canada.
Large ice blocks with embedded garments created during an art residency in Banff Alberta, Canada.
Myrtle - Photograph of Eucalyptus flowers (Myrtaceae), Poplar leaves (Salicaceae), Staghorn leaves, fabric, ice.
Myrtle - Photograph of Eucalyptus flowers (Myrtaceae), Poplar leaves (Salicaceae), Staghorn leaves, fabric, ice.
Alectra - Photograph of Goats Beard Moss (Alectoria), Pitcher Plant flowers (Sarraceniaceae), Ivy, fabric, ice.
Alectra - Photograph of Goats Beard Moss (Alectoria), Pitcher Plant flowers (Sarraceniaceae), Ivy, fabric, ice.
Clémence - Photograph of Clematis seedpods, Hydrangea flowers, artificial flowers, fabric, ice.
Clémence - Photograph of Clematis seedpods, Hydrangea flowers, artificial flowers, fabric, ice.
Laura - Photograph of skeletonized Laurel leaves, Birch bark, Deer skin, fabric, ice.
Laura - Photograph of skeletonized Laurel leaves, Birch bark, Deer skin, fabric, ice.
Luna - Photograph of Annual Honesty (Lunaria Annua), Pampas Grass (Cortaderia selloana), fabric, ice.
Luna - Photograph of Annual Honesty (Lunaria Annua), Pampas Grass (Cortaderia selloana), fabric, ice.
Maggie - Photograph of Magnolia leaves, Baby’s Breath (Gypsophila), roots, fabric, ice.
Maggie - Photograph of Magnolia leaves, Baby’s Breath (Gypsophila), roots, fabric, ice.
Typhanie - Photograph of Cattail leaves (Typha), Maple leaves (Acer), Chinese Lanterns (Physalis alkekengi), fabric, ice.
Typhanie - Photograph of Cattail leaves (Typha), Maple leaves (Acer), Chinese Lanterns (Physalis alkekengi), fabric, ice.

IceShifts

IceShifts is a series of photographs consisting of garments and botanicals frozen into large blocks of ice. Heads, hands and reproductive organs are substituted with plant materials and each title relates to a women’s name derived from a plant. Though it may have been a Victorian conceit to name girls after pretty flowers, here the plants signify a more rooted relationship to the biological environment. This work is also inspired by a scene in July Taymor’s film adaptation of Titus where she portrays Lavinia as a hybrid woman-tree figure. Like Lavinia and her Greek counterparts Daphne and the Dryads, the IceShifts series depict a modern interpretation of a spring nymph emerging from her ice chamber.

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