About Michelle
After studying both Marine Biology and Printmaking at the University of Washington, in Seattle, at the expense of sleep, one day I realized that while the career possibilities were about the same for both I had a distinct advantage in one. While it was helpful to have biology inform my art projects, it was decidedly unhelpful for art to inform my biology tests. While the Pacific Northwest marine life made excellent muses the artistic sensibilities made the dry research papers more creative than they should have been. I have been making up and embellishing scientific tidbits ever since. Recently I have been interested in birds, behavior, instincts, and physiology. In many of my pieces I have taken bits of research and paired them with my own writing in fake scientific documents along with diagrams and images supporting imagined research.
WORK :
Current Work
Site Specific Installations
Tiles
Really Altered Books