"Purple Toe Skate Frog"Zero Waste art piece made from pieces of recycled skateboards, and mounted on a round, clear coated piece of birch. Custom, round frame black dyed and clear coated oak half dowels that has been cut and glued to a woven cotton strap to create the custom tambour frame. Size is noted on the photo. Feel free to message me if you have questions or would like more detail about the story behind this or any of my artwork.

Parakeets are cut from a single recycled skateboard and are floating off the perch and a clear-coated Blondewood (certified sustainable product) background

See size on image *note that the petals are not clipped in the actual piece

Size is noted on the photo

This piece was created using pieces of several used skateboards (the ivory keys are white-washed pine)

"Model of the Year" is created from a 1966 promotional photo of Iman by Vogue magazine when they named her "Model of the Year" (Iman was the first native African woman to receive this honor

Custom frame using American Cherry (wood)

This piece is unframed and mounted on a black box

800 individual pieces that were hand dyed and clear coated using water-based coatings - then assembled by hand and mounted in a custom

Once the grip tape (and gunk) is removed I celebrate these original colors as the petals and leaves of the flowers

Beech and Hard Maple species that are remnants from the milling of wood used to create frame molding (I have created hundreds of Zero-Waste wood frames)

All other materials are Zero-Waste items taken from my studio space

hand made clock featuring African wenge hardwood