Plasticine Prehistoric

Some of my best creative work starts with a $3 toy dinosaur and a question: what if?

I've told students this for years, and I still believe it: play isn't a break from serious creative work. It is serious creative work. When you're deep in a project and the thinking gets stuck, the most productive thing you can do is set it down and go make something completely ridiculous. Your subconscious keeps working. The block loosens. You come back with fresh eyes and, if you're lucky, a handful of images that make people laugh.

Plasticine Prehistoric is exactly that kind of work. Toy dinosaurs - the cheap, brightly colored kind from the bin at the toy store - photographed as though they have places to be and opinions about getting there. Tucked into succulents hunting through miniature jungles. Pulling a sleigh across a blood moon sky. Watching a comet streak overhead with very specific feelings about it.

The series borrows its name from the geological eras scientists use to mark prehistoric time - Pleistocene, Pliocene, Holocene - swapping in the malleable, handmade quality of Plasticine to signal what this work actually is: crafted, intentional, and gleefully unserious.

Archival prints are available in multiple sizes, each made to order on museum-quality paper with pigment inks guaranteed for 100+ years - which feels like a reasonable investment for creatures that already survived one extinction event.