The Collector

$550.00

24.5” x 21.5” x 4.5”

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.

Note: This piece is on display at Stier Family Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, ME and is available for purchase on this website. It can be picked up or shipped to you at the conclusion of the exhibition on January 31st.

24.5” x 21.5” x 4.5”

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.

Note: This piece is on display at Stier Family Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, ME and is available for purchase on this website. It can be picked up or shipped to you at the conclusion of the exhibition on January 31st.

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.