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“Two Hundred Specimens” is a miniature cabinet of curiosities, measuring 10” by 10” by 3” and containing over 200 specimens, drawings, photos and writings from the Burren, in Ireland, where I supervised 13 students from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design studying at the Burren College of Art for a semester in 2005. Honoring the tradition of 15th century Cabinets of Wonder as the precursors to Natural History Museums, and continuing an obsession with specimens presented in a contemporary interpretation of historical cabinets that began with my commissioned cabinet for the Carleton College Library, this piece is a physical record of my interactions with the landscape, flora and fauna in the unique geological and cultural environment in and around Ballyvaughan, Ireland, on Galway Bay.

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Two Hundred Specimens (open view)
Two Hundred Specimens (closed)
Two Hundred Specimens (shelf detail)
Two Hundred Specimens (drawer detail)
Some Specimens
Specimen Box: Possession
Specimen Box: Specimens
Specimen Box: Defense
Specimen Box: The Search
Specimen Box: The Shore
Specimen Box: Transformation
Specimen Box: The Third Thing
Specimen Box: Minutae
Specimen Box: Boundaries
To Be Between
Sand, Sea, Sky (box with books)
Sand, Sea, Sky (open books)
Observing, Thinking, Breathing: The Carleton Cabinet of Wonders
Observing, Thinking, Breathing: The Carleton Cabinet of Wonders (open)
Word for Word
Condensed Creatures
Science Experiments
In Here / Out There
In Here
The Time/Life Series
Bugs of Summer
The Book of Fears
The Diminutive Digest
The Diminutive Digest Box