These sculptural paintings were exhibited at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art from November 2023 through April 2024. The works take their outside forms from marine organisms: a scallop, cowrie shell, giant clam, larval lionfish, and ammonite. Inside the shaped forms, vegetables in relief mingle with textural materials like rope, burlap, borax crystals, and casts from plastic “clamshell” packaging. The vegetables were originally cast for my 2022 commission for the Kansas City International Airport, each one representing a relationship with a local urban sustainable farmer. I see these hybrid creatures as queer ecologies. They exemplify wild symbiotic relationships and ways of looking at organisms, landscapes, and time through the lens of multitudes.
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Photo credits this page T. Maxwell Wagner