The egg, Its minimalist form is simple and pure, in sharp contrast to the complex nature of its contents: the beginnings life.

I have visually studied the egg, collecting an assortment of eggs from different species. Included in my collection is a garbage bag filled with cleaned out broken egg shells. This has been the source for my most recent photographic series, “L’oeuf”. I’ve manipulated the broken eggshells into different sculptural shapes and arranged them taking advantage of how the simple white objects, with broken edges, play with light and shadow.

Although the objects are white, there can be color generated from the light passing through the translucent shell, as in “1” and “11”, or light bouncing off the surface as in “1010”. The relationship between the shapes within each frame is another element that I considered. In “1001”, an egg is severely fragmented, yet magically holding together, while others, “1000” and “111” I reconstructed from different eggs, giving the illusion of a whole egg.

In naming the pieces I used the binary system for several reasons. The simple round shapes of both the egg and the zero are comparable. But most conspicuous is both are simple on the surface and so complex inside, the egg containing the DNA for life and the binary code being the DNA for just about everything else.