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My recent mixed media sculpture/drawing/installation projects explore our relationship to the natural world via darkly humorous commentaries on natural history museums. I create dioramas as visual spoofs of museum displays that combine sad-sack animal models with ludicrously assembled landscape backdrops. The implication being that fabricated nature scenes are so far removed from the real world that they might as well be constructed from a ridiculously random pile of household cast-offs. I fashion do-it-yourself taxidermy models from illogical combinations of household cast-offs. Materials such as fleecy acrylic blankets, bath mats and used carpeting are mixed with hardware store supplies, sheet rubber and spray foam insulation serve as stand-ins for the stuff of life. Or are these cast-offs actually the stuff choking the life out of our environment? The models are generally shown in what appears to be a half-finished state, suggesting that the taxidermist/artist was either called away mid-process or just gave up the pretense that the home-made creation would ever actually look believable.