Fun with Science
This work is influenced by readings including the diaries of Charles Darwin, the work of philosopher Elizabeth Grosz, who seeks to link Darwin’s research on sexual selection with Luce Irigarary’s theories on sexual difference, and Jane Bennett’s writing on new materialism. Their work informs my own interest in how biological and cultural life evolves, changes and develops in unpredictable directions, always in a state of flux. We seek to establish order by creating taxonomies and groupings, fixing things in place. Yet, forces such as desire can destabilize and upend systems and classifications, resulting in new configurations. This body of work is based in drawing practice and plays with visual traditions of scientific illustration. Elaborate curves, saturated colors, and feathery extensions are expressions of excess, unrepentant beauty and the startling physical characteristics that are the results of sexual selection.
This work is influenced by readings including the diaries of Charles Darwin, the work of philosopher Elizabeth Grosz, who seeks to link Darwin’s research on sexual selection with Luce Irigarary’s theories on sexual difference, and Jane Bennett’s writing on new materialism. Their work informs my own interest in how biological and cultural life evolves, changes and develops in unpredictable directions, always in a state of flux. We seek to establish order by creating taxonomies and groupings, fixing things in place. Yet, forces such as desire can destabilize and upend systems and classifications, resulting in new configurations. This body of work is based in drawing practice and plays with visual traditions of scientific illustration. Elaborate curves, saturated colors, and feathery extensions are expressions of excess, unrepentant beauty and the startling physical characteristics that are the results of sexual selection.
