"Part of a pioneering movement."
TODAY SHOW
SELF-PORTRAIT
Reclaimed pine wood
17" x 17" x 2"
2022
“This self-portrait on a tree ring, I can explore the sense of time itself, and the outsize impact lifetime moments can have. These are the moments I chose to mark with pyrography, the ancient art of writing with fire, imprinting the tree with the moments that imprinted me. Here are the moments I chose to mark”
Self-portrait text:
Age 0 Birth
Age 7 Understand irony
Age 8 Parents divorce
Age 9 Stop believing in God
Age 11 to 16 awkward
Age 22 to 26 Era of trying too hard
Age 24 Fail big
Age 27 Succeed
Age 28 Marriage, life expands
Age 33 Daughter born, heart expands
Age 34 Realize I had 1 million eggs at birth
Age 36 Realize I don’t have that many good eggs left
Age 36 to 38 Miscarriages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Age 38 IVF rounds 1 & 2 (Age of Needles)
Age 39, Second daughter born, father dies, flowers everywhereAge 40 to 50, Appreciate life more
Age 50 Give less of a shit about a lot of things…