Field Tent, detail

Cricket Well

My fascination with honeybee architecture led me to explore other insect habitats as well, such as crickets and harvester ants. This structure evokes sensations of a late summer field through stacked registers of alfalfa and field crickets. Crickets fed through ports on each register.

2018; 52"h x 52"dia; elm, screen, alfalfa, crickets, sandstones.

Morning Glory

2018; 48" dia; cotton canvas, beech branches

Wax-Bloom

2018; Beeswax on canvas; 39" dia.

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Circular encaustic awning ring (left); Cloomed (soil/sedimentary
clay, siding, referencing woven bee skeps sealed with earth.

2016; L: 75:" dia. x 10"d; bees wax on canvas, steel rod. R: 68" sq. x 4"d; pine, sedimentary clay, soil, portland cement