Revenants 

February 8 – March 2, 2025

Revenants presents a series of sculptures and drawings that explore our relationship to the animals we consume and how they are perceived within the popular psyche. The work draws on animated foods from popular culture and history to reflect on contemporary consumer culture, erasure of living identity, and interspecies dependence.

Revenants highlights the distance we create as a species when consuming other beings. Through packaging, marketing, processing, and preparation, corporeal transformations are engineered to appease our sympathies and comfort levels, as well as our palates and budgets. In these sculptures, I aim to subvert this sense of transformation inherent in meat preparation to re-empower bodies as fantastic revenants, reinvested with agency and possibility. Standing in their cooked and prepared states, these hybrid bodies demand a sense of reckoning. At once tragic and sympathetic, these sculptures operate within the emotional landscape of consumption that is suppressed by the corporate food industry. 

Artist Statement

I create detailed figurative sculptures and drawings that visualize our entanglement with the surrounding world. In my works, landscapes, the species we affect, and the waste we create, coalesce in vivid forms that illustrate the reach of our impact and consumption habits. 

Recently, my work has focused on species affected by industrial development and human consumption habits, including plant and insect species that are commonly exterminated, and species living within the confines of laboratories and the factory food system. In my sculptures these species are empowered as fantastic hybrid beings, often magnified in scale and detail, looming above the viewer.  

The creation of my sculptures involves myriad materials including carved woods, clays, bio-resins and papier-mâché. The careful hand crafting and painting of each detail heightens the sense of illusion in the work while countering its central themes of hyperactive consumption and development.