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Brink/Collapse I (2019)

This is an installation of rebar hung from the ceiling of a small industrial space lined with wallpaper covered with hand-colored insect renderings. As the rebar extends from the ceiling, the insects fade to nothingness, slowing fading where ever the rebar has been. It explores the damage done due to habitat loss as human construction encroaches on the home of native insects.

Here are some images with the lights off. It was developed with special help from Dr. Luciana Musetti at the OSU Triplehorn Collection in the Museum of Biological Diversity. I am indebt to her kind education! Thank you!

#brink #collapse #insects #osu #triplehorn collection #museum of biological diversity

Brink/Collapse I (2019)

This is an installation of rebar hung from the ceiling of a small industrial space lined with wallpaper covered with hand-colored insect renderings. As the rebar extends from the ceiling, the insects fade to nothingness, slowing fading where ever the rebar has been. It explores the damage done due to habitat loss as human construction encroaches on the home of native insects. It was developed with special help from Dr. Luciana Musetti at the OSU Triplehorn Collection in the Museum of Biological Diversity. I am indebt to her kind education! Thank you!

#brink #collapse #wallpaper #illustration #steel #installation #osu #triplehorn collection #museum of biological diversity

Brink/Collapse II (2019)

This is a series of pottery pieces that explore the damage done as insect populations drop due to habitat loss and increased insecticide and pesticide use. I developed this project in conjunction with help from Dr. Luciana Musetti at the OSU Triplehorn Collection in the Museum of Biological Diversity.

#brink #collapse #ceramic #clay #ceramics #osu #triplehorn collection #museum of biological diversity #insect

Long life/Lifelong and Transcendence (415 ppm) 2019

OSU Urban Arts Space A Visual Representation of the Human Condition - A group show with four other artists that explores human health and vitality.

#sculpture #glass #plants #casting #long life #lifelong #transcendence

There’s a Garden In My Gut 2019 - paper, soil, gardening tools, food, mixed media

There’s a Garden discusses the way foods influence our microbiomes, the billions of bacterial cells that live in our gut and affect the way our body processes food and regulates illness. The tiny origami paper balls represent a proportion of the species of bacteria that comprised the artist’s microbiome in Feb 2018.

#mixed media #microbiome #origami #soil #garden #tools #sculpture

TPO (Thyroid Paretal Optimality) 2019 - Bronze, plastic

TPO explores the impact that plastics in the environment, which can mimic our hormones if they are accidentally consumed, can have on the balance of our bodies.

#bronze #sculpture #casting #environment #thryoid #TPO

Cape Buffalo 2014

#sculpture #clay #plastilina #bronze #animals #animal #cape buffalo #buffalo #3D

Sakana platter (2018)

#clay #hand built #ceramics #platter #fish #sushi #3D #sculpture

First cups (2018)

In the style of Yoko Sekino

#ceramics #pottery #mugs #thrown #handles #Yoko Sekino #3D

Clothed Figure 2018

#sculpture #OSU #figure #clay #ceramics #3D

Bust @ OSU

#sculpture #bust #clay #ceramics #3D

Long Life 2015

Long Life was originally designed to incorporate one glass blue heron in pate verre on the record player and later morphed into two cranes, symbols of long life in Chinese culture. The circular form of the record represents the unending cycles of life. Maggie swapped colors on one crane and engraved the characters of yin and yang to incorporate the elements of opposites that make up the cycle of life. The mirror is engraved with the Chinese symbol for double happiness.

Little did Maggie know that the weekend she made these changes, she had just become pregnant with twins.

Long Life won a departmental award in Ohio States open house.