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Diamond K Dance Ranch

Hand Lathed and Hand Knurled Steel, Pine, Laquer, Wax

8’ x 5’ x 7’

2022

I Gained The Ledge

Culled 10 x 2 Lumber, Glue, Unfired Clay, Spray Paint, Mountain Dew, Coal

1’ x 1’ x 1.5’

2022

Kudzu

Hot Hammered and Cold Pressed Steel, Metal Etching Primer Paint

7’ x 7’ x 1.5’

2022

Mycelium Proposal Quilt *

Reclaimed Clay, Foraged Polypore Mushrooms (Ganoderma applanatum), Athletic Polyester Mesh, Silicon, 31” x 72”

2022

*This work as it is shown here is currently a proposal for a longer research where I will collaborate with superfund sites and brown fields, of which there are 4 in my home town, to use polluted soil and grow specific mushrooms which can metabolize heavy metals, agrochemicals, flurocarbons, and other pollution from toxic soil to then fire the mushrooms grown from this soil in a kiln to apply as a “glaze” onto clay tiles. This process is a small hope of continuing the circulation of the pollutants rather than have them continue to leach into the soil and ground water affecting many species.