I draw from medical and architectural history to relate to the experiences of living with chronic illness. Apothecary bottles sport humorous catch phrases with equal amounts of hope and cynicism. Building fragments are nestled into their new homes of clay, creating a resting place for a lost artifact. As a building crumbles into the landscape, the body crumbles into itself as time passes. Symptoms progress as mortar falls out of the cracks.
Architectural ornament is a through line in my work, influenced by Edgar Miller Handmade Homes, Art Moderne, and Arts & Crafts history. I pull from the aesthetics of medical history, drawing from cure-all ads from the 1800’s, with their blunt and optimistic declarations. The empty promises of snake oil salesman informs the tone of text, used prominently in my practice.
