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Gut Fauna
Buttercream Icing and Vinyl, 6' x 5', 2012
A visual representation of gastric bacterium whose delicate balance is so easily disrupted by the addition of ingested sugar. The artificiality of the exploited materials - plastics and processed sugars - contrasts the organic. A multi-phased process of creating floral lace - initially made dimensional with porcelain, then digitally flattened into a simplistic silhouette - further represents the replacement of the natural with the synthetic.