​A R T I S T   S T A T E M E N T 
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As an artist, I’m drawn to scientific processes. I bake and sculpt as a way to tell human stories about our changing environment. My work over the last three years has been focused on glaciers: their formation process, rapid habitat loss, and the diverse species that rely on ice. I’m fascinated by the ever-changing creation → collapse of ice and the surprising interdependence of ecosystems. I see these cyclical patterns repeated in the physicality of my art’s creation and its subsequent destruction. Edible work is ephemeral work. I believe there’s power in the consumption of ideas and scientific data.

Using sugar as my medium allows me to create a three-dimensional form that I can build, mold, and imprint to mimic our planet’s textures. I find excitement in using place-based ingredients (e.g. glacier water, algae, or snow melt) to create edible art. After construction, I use sugar, alcohol, and edible dyes to paint and model details that communicate deeper scientific stories. The layering of cake and fillings come to represent the scale of a data set, accumulated deposits of time, and flavors or flora within an entire ecosystem. By creating public ephemeral experiences, I seek to facilitate emotional connections with place.
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BREAK TRADITION

​​Instead of traditional wedding cakes, I shift the focus of who and what ​we celebrate.

I redirect that joy and attention to:
1) people protecting our public lands,
2) people living at the edges of our society, and
​3) people doing the work to become engaged, educated, and further connected to our world.

SHIFT THE NARRATIVE

​Growing up as a system-impacted child, I now use my medium as a platform for others to tell their own stories.

​Together, cakes become a blank canvas for incarcerated men and women to explore their creativity — sharing experiences and lessons as messages for a broader public audience.

​INDULGE IN CURIOSITY

​Not having a background in science gives me an advantage when communicating it.

After building relationships with scientists in the Arctic and Antarctic, I read, ask, and watch until I understand the technicalities and then produce edible art that properly communicates the story that they've worked so hard to research.