ARTIST STATEMENT

Rewilding: Large-scale conservation aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and core wilderness areas.

   This body of work explores a new step in mankind's progress, by depicting the creation of   artificial species. These pieces represent a new evolution of life, each one with the potential to be used in the Rewilding process by correcting the mistakes that we have made and aiding in the furtherment of life on this planet. The next evolution of life on this planet may not be a natural one, but one that we build for ourselves.

The development of synthetic organisms may be closer to reality than many of us think. There is already progress being made to create slug-like creatures that secrete a liquid trail that neutralizes acidic soil, spores that guard against Sudden Oak Death, and a biofilm that lives on the leaves of plants to help absorb pollutants and viruses.

These pieces were highly inspired by the theories of Ray Kurtzweil, the works of Patricia Piccinni, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Aldus Huxley, Katsuhiro Ohtomo, and Margaret Atwood.