These pieces are based on the exploration of drawing with light. I was working with the theme of confinement and imprisonment, but also safekeeping. I was interested in the idea that these creatures, or appendages of creatures, have been preserved and put on display, subject to scrutiny. The idea came from curiosity cabinets that were popular during the Renaissance, and also the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, where freakish abnormalities of nature are preserved and housed in jars, put on display for their spectacular qualities.
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