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The Collector
24.5” x 21.5” x 4.5”
On display and available for purchase at Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Boothbay, ME
The Collector celebrates the intelligent mischief of the corvid mind. With a nest of salvaged treasures—gears, glass, buttons, and beads—this assemblage is both shrine and story: a place where curiosity takes root and memory nests.
24.5” x 21.5” x 4.5”
On display and available for purchase at Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Boothbay, ME
The Collector celebrates the intelligent mischief of the corvid mind. With a nest of salvaged treasures—gears, glass, buttons, and beads—this assemblage is both shrine and story: a place where curiosity takes root and memory nests.
Materials List
Carved wooden crow
Grapevine wreath
Wire, moss, and twine
Assorted beads, buttons, screws, keys, gears, dice, game pieces
Glass orb
Collaged background with printed architectural textures
Shadowbox-style wooden frame with gold leaf detail
Perched within a tangle of twigs and wire, a black crow guards its nest—an elaborate collection of miniature treasures. Buttons, beads, gears, game pieces, and glass objects nestle into the woven wreath, a tribute to the well-documented behavior of crows as collectors of curious, shiny things. Behind the nest, ghostly blue-toned imagery and abstracted textures hint at lost structures or fading memories, grounding the piece in both nature and nostalgia.