STATEMENT: One of a series of pieces investigating notions of tracking, ownership and bioengineering. The incubating sunflower seed is associated with a product tracking tag and copyright notice claiming it as MINE.

STATEMENT: The subject is branded with copyright notice as intellectual property labeled as YOURS. The tagging defeats the purpose of the germinating seed which is now unable to grow.

STATEMENT: One of a series of pieces where a collection of bean seeds were incubated on the scanner and catalogued at regular intervals. Each seed is tattooed with a copyright symbol. Each seed adjusts differently to life within the box.

STATEMENT: The piece functions as a catalog of seeds with the viewer as inspector. The daily bean scans are each subjected to different forms of artistic analysis accounting for variability of color, saturation, lighting and detail.

STATEMENT: 5. As the beans grow, they are increasingly compelled to take on the shape of the box not unlike the plants in Renaissance herbals. The character of the inspections mirrors the airport baggage screening experience.

STATEMENT: 6. The pinbox garden series depicts specimens removed from their natural environment and displayed behind plastic. The artistic analysis of each allows little information to escape the notice of the viewer. The past and future worth of each leaf is certified with the recycle symbol, an indirect form of corporate branding. Symbolically the piece references the progressive corruption of the natural.

STATEMENT: The core idea behind this piece is the dilemma of deciphering natural from synthetic. The piece is also an investigation of valuation associated with labels. The history of the box, the control mechanism, is more prominent than the history of the subject itself. The recycle symbols ironically validate the naturalness of the leaf.

STATEMENT: This piece represents the four sides of a terrarium consisting of natural materials collected from a river canyon bottom in Utah. In context these materials define the downstream direction of the water flow when no water is present and thus function as a kind of flood warning device for the hiker. Instead of mapping provenience the compost is given a postnet barcode. In a greater context, they collection and numbering symbolize loss of true wilderness.

STATEMENT: Short Plat Soil Sample implies the division of land into absurdly small property shares. Inspired by the giveaway of square inches of Alaska in cereal boxes some 50 years ago, this piece addresses the precariousness of territorial relationships in this case enforced and codified by plastic grid.

STATEMENT: This weed museum displayed in a slide viewing sleeve catalogues the specimens as mine, yours, ours, theirs, and open source. It follows the notion of intellectual property to its logical extreme. There is someone to claim the rights to each of the weeds.