Specimen from an Angular World is complete. 

Drawing inspiration from a lifelong love of plant life and over twenty years of study in philosophy, linguistics, biology and alternative spiritual disciplines, I am engaged in two simultaneous bodies of work: a series of natural botanical sculptures that invite the viewer to celebrate Nature and its meditative qualities, and a series of botanical sculptures from imagined alternate realities. With works such as ‘Specimen from an Angular World’, my aim is to rekindle curiosity, freedom to suspend ‘reality’, to dream and to invent. I invite the viewer to join me in a mood of curiosity and wonder – If the world was angular, how might plants appear? What if cyclones were botanical? What if plants could dance? What if …?

I will donate this piece to the upcoming Tacoma Museum of Glass Red Hot 2010 Auction and competition.