Assemblage Sculptures | 6

Ignis Terminatorix - (Fire Terminator) 
16.5x22x13in.

This artwork was created during the devastating fires of August 2021, including the Dixie, McFarland, and Caldor Fires.
At the time, I was processing and trying to understand the destruction happening on our planet.

Fire is definitely not my element; it makes me uncomfortable, period. The raging forest fires threw me off balance with the immense loss humanity was enduring and the devastation of nature. This creation became my way of seeking understanding and attempting to transcend something I could not change. Hence the name Ignis Terminatorix—“fire terminator”—a cathartic solution to a situation over which I had no power: a sci-fi robot that would help exterminate these fires. It was not an easy process.

While creating this piece was fun, it was also painful. It hurt. About the process, working with plastics has its own challenges. The black support is part of a Bose audio system; the orange mold came from an IKEA toolbox; and the yellow shapes are parts of a Wixela asthma inhaler. The piece also incorporates buttons, beads, a monitor support on the back, and an umbrella.