Germline 
Plaster, Laminated Wood
2005 College of Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001 McMaster Gallery, Columbia, South Carolina

Each block is made of two parts: nature, which consists of the wood interior and nurture, the plaster exterior. Nature was constructed from four pieces of plywood. I named them “A,” “C,” “G” and “T.” (“A,” “C,””G” and “T” is the alphabet of a DNA structure.) Similar to the construction of a DNA strand, I layered and laminated these pieces of wood or “letters" to form a wooden sequence; all of the strands embedded in the plaster are constructed from the same four sheets of wood revealing cloned sequences. Nurture consists of molded plaster that encompasses the laminated wood. The edges of the blocks are sanded at slightly different angles.

Audio
I recorded eighteen women pronouncing the letters “A,” “C,””G” and “T.” These recorded voices were transferred and cataloged as single letters. I then borrowed a section of a human DNA sequence and programmed in the corresponding voices from random donors in layers. The amount of letters in the sequence is selected to form undulation in the audio helix.