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Artist Statement Aquariums are miniature versions of oceans or lakes that one can have in one's living room. My installations are waterless human-scale "aquariums." They allow me to build my own ocean within an architectural space. I'm interested in the ocean, not just as it really exists but more importantly, as I imagine it to exist. I work primarily with felt, painted rocks, and papier-mache. Using these materials, I build installations by covering surfaces with careful arrangements of organic shapes. This obsessive patterning is important to the work. The forms become almost decorative, like a rug or wallpaper, and connect the natural world to the domestic. We use what is familiar to help us understand what is not. For example, in order to describe the plants and animals of the ocean, we combine descriptive words from our terrestrial world; porcelain crab, pelican's foot shell, moon snail, velvet swimming crab, feather-duster worm, acorn barnacle, and sea lettuce. I use simple, everyday materials to describe a world that is impossibly beautiful and strange. BioI was born in Montreal in 1976 and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. My work is influenced by both the controlled, manicured yards of suburbia and my mom's untamed garden of native plants. I make installations, sculptures, photographs, videos, and artist's books. All of my work exists in a category that I call Fake Nature. I graduated from Oberlin College in 1998 with a major in Studio Art and minor in Anthropology. I've lived in San Francisco for 6 years and recently completed my MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. My current work is inspired by:
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