Replanting: Mountain Lion with Oak Hugo Kobayashi This piece was created for

This piece was created for Modern Eden Gallery's exhibition "100 Trees" shown in San Francisco in April 2022

I work primarily with layers of paint and collage that are woven together to create a dense network of relationships ripe with narrative possibilities

Originally produced in 2015 as a screenprint on paper for the ocean environmental activist foundation Pangea Seed

and I thought she would be perfect for the ideas that were forming in my head

I use the combo of beauty & truth as a kind of banner when I speak about my role in the art bussiness and my ideals about it

Replanting: Mountain Lion with Oak Hugo Kobayashi This piece was created forDetails About Hand sculpted porcelain 13 x 7. 5 x 6 in. 2022 Free standing sculpture Crystal Morey sculpts human animal plant hybrids as a reflection of our effects on the natural world. Through the delicacy of porcelain, she highlights the struggle of fringe, endangered, and extinct species in an era following rapid industrialization. In her work, these susceptible creatures become indicators of the adverse impacts of human caused climate change.