Artist Statement

My work explores the accumulation of microplastics and waste in the environment, particularly within animal bodies. It envisions how microplastics invasion might manifest visually in the bones animals leave behind. Using found plastics, bones, and 3D printing technology, I engage with the unique properties of each material and process, discovering how they intertwine. Found plastic degrades and weaves its way through organic structures, plastic film coats surfaces, and printed plastic accumulates into new forms. This work emerges from an extensive breadth of research spanning animal materials and their symbolism, the existence and broader conceptual implications of plastic waste, environmental concerns, and the use of fictional narratives to address real ecological crises. Designed to reside on and interact with the human body, the jewelry I create serves as a tool to bridge the plastic invasion of non-human bodies with the parallel invasion occurring within human bodies.