Natural History Stories

Paintings in this series are worked in watercolor on birch and maple board and investigate personal connections or extroidinary stories from natural history. Some works connect my history in the form of brooches of my grandmothers to art from natural history such as the tradition of painting stag beetles or engaging in trompe-l'oeil. In addition, there are works that depict the 17th-19th century controversy over whether swallows migrated or hibernated under water, the Tartary lamb who was said to be a vegetable-animal hybrid, and experiments conducted to see if storks relied on their feet as alarm clocks by tying stones to them.