Teachers Pet
This cute little dragonfly is made from up-cycled materials. His body is a pencil and he rests on an eraser Size: 3″ long about 2 ” high | Medium: Found Objects, Metal, Wood: Wood. | Available for Purchase
This cute little dragonfly is made from up-cycled materials. His body is a pencil and he rests on an eraser Size: 3″ long about 2 ” high | Medium: Found Objects, Metal, Wood: Wood. | Available for Purchase
This lamp will light your way. The arm swings a full 360°. Size: | Medium: Acrylic, Found Objects, Metal, Wood: | ©Marijo Swick, 2017
This painting explores ideas of creation and re-creation, protectively locking away in a chainmail-like structure the code form a DNA snippet that is thought to act like a switch, turning on muscle tissue repair in the heart, our most valued muscle for life both in a physical and metaphysical sense. Size: 12″ x 12″ x
The first step in any journey is often the hardest. All explorers hesitate to follow their dreams at first and most lose out. Lucky for you we’ve captured the bearer of hopes and dreams for you, in the form of a beautiful dragonfly caged in a copper wire sphere, sitting in an unassuming wooden box.
Exploring the concepts of an information highway, remnants of a spine interwoven with computer cables representing both the human nervous system and computer networks, connect to gears and mechanical workings akin to the human body, encompassed by the high tech global world of the information age.
Repurposing materials with a steampunk aesthetic, invoking a gritty mad scientist’s lab & an experiment gone wrong, we wait for electricity to enter the test tube, giving the first sparks of possible life. With advancements in DNA manipulation, we are caught in that moment of could we vs should we. Size: 12 x 12