These genetic anomaly sculptures with multiple heads or extra eyes, on potted house plants, delves into the contrasts between untamed nature and the controlled, modified, and often 'cute-ified' versions that we bring into our indoor spaces.

   As natural space becomes scarcer and more compromised by environmental degradation, our homes become sanctuaries where we attempt to preserve a connection to the wild. Our choices in art, in the animals we share our lives with, and the greenery we grow become acts of both reverence and control, as we shape our interior environments to reflect our aesthetics along with our desire for companionship and a communal relationship with nature.

    In our daily lives we are constantly curating our surroundings and the living creatures and objects we add become natural extensions of our need to be connected with the wild. Yet, as we bring these pieces of the outside world into our interiors, they are inevitably changed. Wild becomes tame, nature’s plants are confined to pots and animals evolve into pets, their forms altered from the effects of poisonous environments or genetic tampering.This negotiation between our longing for nature and the realities of the earth’s shrinking and increasingly toxic natural spaces and our own impact on them defines our contemporary habitats.     We are at once building spaces that nurture our need for connection and being confronted with the truth of our impact on the natural world and its inhabitants