These are images from my seed ball making party on September 24, 2011 at my ArtPrize project Nebula: A Growing Installation. The more seed balls the public takes, the bigger the installation gets.
Children love making seed balls! They made some to take home and also left some at Nebula to share with others. Thanks for participating everyone! 
More pictures of Nebula: A Growing Installation here at Flickr.
I designed these stickers to be Kickstarter pledge rewards and also to give away at my seed ball making parties at ArtPrize.
I’ve been playing around with Geotype (old school graphic design tool, they are little wax letters you can burnish onto paper, thanks Tom!), and I came up with this Spread Seeds text:
In my sketches I had some ink drawings of plants and spouts:
Combined they created the finished sticker.
Update: Funding was a success! Thank you backers, supporters and attendees.
I’m doing a site-specific clay graffiti installation in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan for ArtPrize. I’m so excited, it’s going to be an awesome 19 days. My birthday is on September 27th during the artsy shenanigans, it will be the best birthday ever. I get to share my new work and, at the same time, share gardening with people. Yip!
I would be as happy as a spaceship of kittens if you could help me out by spreading the word on social networks and other interweb hangouts.
i participated in the artist’s program Float Creations over at Float HQ on Hawthorne. to learn more about float tanks and the benefits of floating, check out their website.
it was an anti-gravity experience, it felt surreal floating on super-salty water. since the tank can only be so big, i would occasionally drift against the walls of the float tank. i imagined large creatures brushing past on the way to infinity.
Recently I made Text-ccessory, a piece that proposes wearing status updates and tweets as an interesting new form of adornment.
p.s. Text-ccessory will be at the interactive exhibition Would You Wear This?, Exquisite Corpse Gallery for the month of November, I would love for you to check it out if you are in the Kzoo area!
p.p.s artist statement (pdf)
This multimedia self portrait was part of The Exquisite Corpse’s Scavenged: Altered Art show October 2010. The idea is that your masterpiece is made from leftover bits and shits that you scavenged from thrift stores, the side of the road, etc. Mostly she is made of found pretty paper, cat cutouts from “Cats of the World”, 3M double stick foam remnants, a crappy poster frame, and awesome gold/silver foil. Some of the collage is on the upper plexiglass, the rest inside on the brown frame-back. I liked that when viewed from different angles, the piece changes depth. The Alice in Wonderland fluorescent-green quote was found at Oregon Country Fair. Yes, there are dangle-y cat arms and legs. Oh, and there are cat face cutouts here.
CAT FACE CUTOUTS! a.k.a. homemade stickers/business cards i made to go alongside a piece for the Exquisite Corpse Gallery in Kalamazoo, MI. Their October 2010 show is called Scavenged: Altered Art, check it out if you’re in the area.
my friend Erik made the “free kittens!” sign, i can’t stop laughing, it’s so darned cute.
hahahaha!
Mouth and Clay was installed at the 2008 Annual Student Show at Western Michigan University and also at the 80th Regional Exhibition at the Muskegon Museum of Art. More images here.
A submission to Art House Gallery’s “Collecting Objects” Show. Art House is in Atlanta, GA*. The show begins the end of this month, unfortunately I can’t make it, but I’m pleased with the finished piece.
They are specimen bags filled with cards with a printed message and exponentially growing amounts my hair. Hair, and the pursuit of growing my hair is no longer a project, but a habit; an obsession.
*Art House moved from Atlanta to Brooklyn, here is their link.
One recurring theme my thesis exhibition was human hair. I see hair as a line that signifies time and quality of life. Just like rings on a tree, our hair contains physical evidence of hardship, every individual’s temporal existence is personal and tangible.
I experimented with hair, trapping it in resin like the proverbial mosquito in amber.
