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
Leaves - Fragments of a Tree
Leaves are not only the tree’s discard, but its memory made visible. Falling, they carry fragments of a life once rooted within their fragile form.
Found object assemblages on printed leaves (framed dimensions 10.5” x 10.5”)
Beneath
We move across lawns as if they are simple, familiar surfaces—green and still. Yet beneath each step lies an intricate world: roots and fungi, insects and decay, minerals and moisture, all woven into a living system beyond immediate perception. Soil is not empty ground, but a dense, sustaining fabric from which all life emerges and to which it returns. In its balance, life is held; in its degradation, everything above it begins to unravel.
This installation reflects that hidden complexity as a living carpet—an invitation to pause, to look down, and to reconsider the ground we so easily forget we depend upon.
Found object living assemblage (108" x 96" x 72")
After the Forest
The work reflects on the cost of development and the quiet violence of removal, where natural systems are reduced to resources. It asks what is lost when living environments are replaced, and what lingers in the aftermath of that transformation.
Trees and Clay Circles
Unearthed trees suspended over clay circles (collaborations with Joann Galarza Vega).
Five small trees are suspended over dried clay circles. Trees were collected from a home renovation construction site. Clay was collected from a former forest that was cleared for construction, leaving decimated trees and exposed earth. The trees hang over the dried clay, separated from their life source, and are connected to each other at the roots by thread as an homage to how live trees are connected and communicate underground. A continuous line of red sand runs through the clay circles.
A single tree is suspended over a dried clay circle. The tree was planted in a residential yard by a landscaping company and died after transplant, leaving visibly restricted roots and branches. The painted clay is topped with various materials collected from nature, arranged as a 'blessing' of the things that fall from trees, fallen trees and the loss of our ecosystems. Bird sounds come from a nest in the tree.
