Steel armature, giant palm sheaths from Florida, coconut shredded baskets
Tilly Foster Farm with Collaborative Concepts 2025
Assemblage creatures of giant palm sheaths, shredded coconut hoods and welded steel armatures. 2024 - current
Photographed at New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Snake swallowing its tail, a symbol of destruction, death and rebirth. A work in progress, dimensions variable. Wine, vodka and water bottles. Shown at Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill, MA.
Snake swallowing its tail: a symbol of death and destruction, or birth and rebirth
WIne and vodka bottles, vinyl, wire. 13’ across.
Tilly Foster Farm, Brewster NY 2025
Photo: Steven Tucker
Tree branches and roots, molded resin, wire.
Exhibited 2022 Collaborative Concepts, Tilly Foster Farm, Brewster, New York
Sunworshippers depicts an abstracted version of a ritual in praise of Mother Nature and the Sun. The gesture is an archetypal human expression of celebration, joy and worship. The glowing translucent discs represent heads between the raised wooden arms, and “hands” made of roots. This work also references the Egyptian icon, the Sun God Ra. The grouping represents the collective experience of a shared ritual.
Large branches, 8 - 9 feet tall, molded resin discs, vinyl
Historic Red Mills Park, Mahopac NY 2025
Vines, steel, hydrocal, cast rubber
10’ long x 3’ x 3’
The Mount, Sculpture Now Lenox, MA 2021
Tilly Foster Farm, Collaborative Concepts Bristol NY 2020
photo: Steven Tucker
Vines, cast urethane rubber, lead, steel.
North Bennington Sculpture Show, Vermont 2022
Outfit created at Truro Center for the Arts from lichen and deer moss, fabric. 2024
Le Festival d’Arte Contemporain
Roquebrun-sur-Argens, France 2022
The Enchanted Forest
Jodoigne, Belgium 2023
The Veil Between Us
Fresh Air Biennial
Quenington, England 2024
Steve Russell, photograph
My piece THE VEIL BETWEEN US is dedicated to the memory of my grandmother. The Veil is the neutral point between life and death; a permeable boundary between the worlds. The resin I work with preserves and protects the embedded pods, bones, flowers, insects and other natural elements. The specimens are embedded in an ancestral sap, waiting for their metamorphosis to begin.
Amber Whirly
Cast resin, embedded deceased honeybees 5.5’ x 2.5’ at base
Sculpture Now, The Mount, Edith Wharton Estate, Lenox MA 2016
photo: Steven Tucker
Amber Whirly
Sculpture Now, The Mount, Edith Wharton Estate, Lenox MA 2017
photo: Steven Tucker
photo: Steven Tucker
photo: Steven Tucker
A Pagan symbol based on an actual hollow horn, once slung over the shoulder to harvest food . A symbol of abundance.
Steel, rubber, vinyl, vines 10’ long
Tilly Foster Farm / Collaborative Concepts Bristol NY 2021
Art In The Orchard Biennial Easthampton, MA 2023
Vacu-formed acrylic containing meditation bundles of cat bones, deer bones, twine, yarn, shells & natural detritus with clear tubing
Each 17” long
Festival de Bargemon, 2019 Bargemon, France
Endangered Monarch butterflies, donated by the Monarch Conservancy. My wishful willingness for them to reanimate through this cone of energy.
Vassar College; Sculpture at Art on the Farm, Poughkeepsie NY
Cast resin, deceased Monarch Butterflies 4.5’ tall 2020
Every year, Monarchs embark on an epic multigenerational migration that takes them thousands of miles. in the 1990s, an estimated one billion monarchs made this migration, but over the past 15 years, they've lost millions of acres of habitat and the number of monarchs has steadily dropped by 80 percent or more. Herbicides used to grow genetically modified corn are largely to blame for destroying the milkweed where they lay their eggs.
I have traveled to one of their home places in Mexico and have seen their migration numbers shrinking. I am fortunate to have been given the donation of butterflies in “Whirly” from The Monarch Project in California, donated specifically to use in this and other sculptures.
Vassar College; Sculpture at Art on the Farm, Poughkeepsie NY 2018
Cast resin, deceased Monarch Butterflies 4’ tall
Cast resin with Monarch butterflies embedded, carved wood, LEDs.
2018
Carved Marble 20” x 10” 2021
photo: Steven Tucker
Cast resin, carved wood, LEDs.
2018
Carved Marble 20” x 10” 2021
photo: Steven Tucker
Men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life. - Henry David Thoreau
Spring of Springs - Cast resin, wood 2017
Hapgood- Wright Forest, Thoreau-Emerson Trail Concord MA
Leaf Corset with matching neckpiece. Part of 5 piece ensemble. Natural red leaves, antique velvet, corset findings 20” tall 2017
Catskill Interpretive Center, Utilitarian Art Mount Tremper, NY
photo:n Steven Tucker
Carved and torched Butternut tree trunk, Aspen painted to resemble white birch, burnt wood, moss.
2023 Collaborative Concepts at Tilly Foster Farm, Bristol NY
Wire, paper, paint. Event with performance and Hangaroh Collective
Rising Up, Flowing Down Vienna Watertower, Vienna, Austria 2018
Carved Marble 20” x 10” 2021
photo: Steven Tucker