Skeletal Harness. Molded Leather Wearable Art. 2022

Skeletal Harness is an anatomically incorrect depiction of a skeleton, designed to be worn outside of one’s skin. Featuring a molded leather spine and sternum, this piece is held together with a spine-like chain, o-rings and leather straps. I created Skeletal Harness for the Gods & Monsters Art Show.

Dickhead Codpiece. Molded Leather Wearable Art. 2020

Codpieces were originally designed to cover men’s privates in the days before pants, when they wore tights that consisted only of two legs. Later they became the answer to pocketless trousers, storing money and snacks. Eventually they became an over-exaggerated, ornate symbol of masculinity, adopted in modern times by leather daddies and metal bands alike. I created “Dickhead Codpiece” for Safeword: an Erotic Art Show, in part to poke fun at the absurdity of over-exaggerated masculinity and also to merge imagery from BDSM with a nearly forgotten historical garment.

Tentacles. Mixed Media Sculpture. 2020

Tentacles is a hanging mixed media sculpture. Using blown out bicycle tubes, deconstructed fabric, scrap leather, thread, and discarded garden edging, I constructed a column inspired by jellyfish and thoughts of the devastating pollution in our oceans. In a dystopian imagining of the future of our ocean life’s biology, I see life evolving to merge with the garbage in the surrounding environment.

Stalactrash. Mixed Media Sculpture. 2019

Through my experience in clothing and accessory design, I became disgusted by the amount of waste created by those industries. I decided to pull some materials from the landfill to give them new life. Stalactrash is a fiber sculpture created from garbage. Using both scraps that were headed to the bin and dumpster finds, I dyed and deconstructed the fabric before sculpting it into the cave-inspired column.