Nicole Schoepflin
Fetal Pod Series
Mixed media/found object assemblages.
Large Dome (dimensions - 5” x 10.75”) Small Dome (dimensions - 4” x 7.75”)
The Murder of Trees
Mixed media/found object assemblage.
"Murdered" trees suspended by rusty chains hanging from weathered child mattress frame.
Fetal Pod Series
Mixed media/found object assemblages.
Large Dome (dimensions - 5” x 10.75”) Small Dome (dimensions - 4” x 7.75”)
Fetal Pod Series
Mixed media/found object assemblages.
Large Dome (dimensions - 5” x 10.75”) Small Dome (dimensions - 4” x 7.75”)
Fetal Pod Series
Mixed media/found object assemblages.
Large Dome (dimensions - 5” x 10.75”) Small Dome (dimensions - 4” x 7.75”)
Fetal Pod Series
Mixed media/found object assemblages.
Large Dome (dimensions - 5” x 10.75”) Small Dome (dimensions - 4” x 7.75”)
About Me
Fetal Pods
Mother Nature can survive without mankind, but mankind cannot survive without Mother Nature.
Food, clean air and water are the foundations of life. Earth provides us with all the essentials we need to survive. By depleting our natural resources and destroying the ecosystems in which we live, we are in essence, destroying ourselves. In this series I explore humanity’s reliance on our Mother Earth.
Mixed found object assemblages encased in glass domes.
Large domes (dimensions - 5” x 10.75”) Small domes (dimensions - 4” x 7.75”)
"You are comprised of: 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells.
You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by (an egg) and a sperm.
You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth,
broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing.
You are not living on Earth. You are Earth."
~ Aubrey Marcus
Earth Fetuses
These mixed media assemblages combine hand-colored vintage scientific prints with nature elements.
Dimensions 10.5” x 10.5”
Orchids
Inspired by the Aubrey Marcus quote above, this mixed media piece contains 75 life sized, 12 week old human fetus models, recessed and camouflaged painted into an enlarged reproduction of Plate 74: Orchidae; a lithography print created by Ernst Haeckel in 1904. Dimensions 38" x 50"
Peanuts
Inspired by the Aubrey Marcus quote above, this mixed media piece contains 32 life sized, 12 week old human fetus models, recessed and camouflage painted into an enlarged reproduction of a vintage scientific drawing of a peanut plant.
Dimensions 35" x 26"
Possum
Inspired by the Aubrey Marcus quote above, this mixed media piece contains a single, life sized, 12 old week human fetus model nestled within a tiny world inside a marsupial's pouch. The Opossum, Didelphimorphia, is a scientific illustration created by Albertus Seba in 1734. Dimensions 28" x 42"
