I am a painter and a push pin bead artist currently residing in Tennessee. I was inspired to create my interpretation of rotten fake food from early childhood memories of my home. My mother had huge glass grapes and plastic grape clusters on the bay window of our living room. I remember plucking the plastic grapes, squeezing them and suctioning them to my face pretending they were warts.My background in biology lead me to explore the natural processes of decay and micro-organisms and I want to bring back fake fruit and foods that were so popular decades ago into the home, but with a twist by...more
