As technology rapidly advances, we encounter interruptions in our daily lives. We are constantly instructed to upgrade, and recapitulate. Many times, these changes occur so subtly that we are unaware of them until confronted and surprised by their replacement. These Discoveries investigate stumbling upon a common natural object in its campestral environment. By pairing biological forms with suggestive functions, I play with expectations of truth, science, and the organic.

Each Discovery begins with my study of a mundane object with a compelling surface. I find ways to turn the viewer's experience by introducing clashing elements to an object they are familiar with. In order to achieve a realistic version of the object, I use a combination of casting and chasing, two metalsmithing processes which combine elements of the mechanical and the hand. The surface texture is developed by repetitive, subtle changes, until the correct form of the object abruptly emerges.
I employ photography to document each piece in a carefully constructed "natural" environment, at the moment of discovery.