“Enrichment Collages” made at my 2021 Stoveworks Residency in Chattanooga, TN.
My recent sculptures have been directly inspired by the built habitats of animals and the structures engineered by humans to simulate them in the process of care and rehabilitation. Through my work with wildlife, both in a clinic and in the field, I have become preoccupied with the practice of enrichment, by which an animal’s core environmental comforts and needs are provided via an echoing of and slight mimesis of nature.
