Creature Comforts

This series fuses zoology with musings on human development  to generate organisms exhibiting idiosyncratic behaviors, surreal adaptations, and whimsical costumes. These invented hybrid creatures serve as personifications of anxiety stemming from the perceived disparity between one’s current status and age-based sociocultural expectations. Each creature builds on a developing personal folklore that addresses the struggle of reconciling these differences. 

Created by adhering paper to sheets of wood and then cutting the wood to shape. The drawings are rendered in ink, watecolor, gouache, and conté.