An Efflorescence A captive bird cannot maintain its natural exhibitions of social behavior, yet it will adapt, and may even thrive, in its appointed artificial environment. To effloresce is to reach an optimum stage of growth or development, a state or period of bursting forth, or flowering. In my pieces I render a bursting forth of fluorescent, organic forms; birds, compressed and intertwined in active and stimulating compositions. I am embracing a study of the abnor- malities of natural design, and the fragility of our own environments, physically, socially, or otherwise. I’m interested in pursuing the relationship between accurate and false perceptions of expressions of well being, just as say, one chooses to perceive a bird in a cage.
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