Artist Statement

My work explores ideas and issues related to the accumulation of microplastics and waste in the environment, specifically in animal bodies. Microplastics are now found in every being and my work imagines how this might visually appear in the bones animals leave behind. My work is inspired by Natural History Museums. Natural history collections are an important way to study evidence we find by comparing unaltered bones, found plastics from the environment, and where those two meet in the animal body. During the creation of my work, I embody the position of a natural historian who is discovering the “evidence” of specimens that are the result of these environmental conditions.