Overview

In most of my work, I try to bring the outside in. With my sculpture China Grove, however, my challenge was to display an aspect of the forest within a forest setting. I wanted to create objects that had the look of precious porcelain figurines and present them in an outdoor space that would serve as a natural display cabinet. With this in mind, I treated nine cedar flares—stumps that have been pulled from the ground—with a substance that gave them a china-like appearance.