These works stem from Woodworking, Casting, and Welding class and Life Modeling class in 2023.
Parents of Boring Children was displayed in Anna's Oak Group Exhibition at Warwick Furnace Farm October-November 2025. The show commemorated the falling of Anna's Oak, a historical white oak tree that lived on the Thomas P. Bentley Nature Preserve.
Full display.
Detail View.
Super Sculpey Clay, acrylic paint, black wire, and tin foil.
These insects are hand sculpted and painted at a 1:1 scale with each insect specimen's living counterpart. They are a pair of Reddish-Brown Stag Beetles.
Front View.
Detail View, Early Positioning Concept.
Super Sculpey Clay, acrylic paint, colored pencils, white gel pen, black wire, aluminum wire, tin foil, and thread.
These insects are hand sculpted and painted at a 1:1 scale with each insect specimen's living counterpart. The group includes the Giraffe Stag Beetle, the Butterfly Cicada, the Ten-Lined June Beetle, the Skull Faced Masked Beetle, and the Lacordaire's Stag Beetle.
Top View.
Front View, Close Up.
Aluminum wire, thread, Super Sculpey Clay, roving wool, paint, clear nail polish, squared brass rod, and upholstery foam.
This Hickory Tussock Moth Caterpillar has a wire armature imbedded into a carved upholstery foam body. The foam body was then needle felted with roving wool to build up the fluff and patterns.
Process of a Talking Head.
Still of Talking Heads from "Don't Look."
Durham's Water Putty, shellac, and acrylic paint.
The Talking Heads were created by making a PoYo rubber mold on a Sculptey Clay sculpture. The sculptures were cast in this mold in Durham's Water Putty. They were then painted and dotted with colors with extreme contrast to be used in a stop motion film in which they talked with illustrated replacement mouths.
Side View.
Back View.
Hydrocal plaster, plastic and googly eyes, shellac, acrylic paint, epoxy, wax, and patina.
The Smiling Horse Heads were created by making a PoYo rubber mold with a plaster mother mold on a Plastilina clay sculpture. The sculptures were cast in this mold in Hydrocal plaster. The Blue Smiling Horse has an applied copper paint with various patinas.
Top View, fish only.
3/4" View.
Pine wood, plywood, wood glue, nails, stain, polyurethane, and mixed media found objects.
Side View.
Back View.
Nails, steel sphere, screw, wire, bar, and patina.
The Descent of Nails piece is a playable instrument created using MIG Welding, an angle grinder, a die grinder, and a sand blaster. It is rusted with a patina for steel.
Front View.
Back View.
Terracotta clay, copper based paint, patina, and wax.