During 2010, a plot to bomb Times Square was foiled by a couple of street vendors who noticed smoke leaking out of a parked SUV.  An onlooker expressed her anticipation that another terrorist plot would eventually succeed in her city.  She said, “You know it’s coming”.  But she doesn’t know.  She anticipates danger she may never experience.  Like her, most of us walk a tightrope between daily living and between the anticipation of psychic or physical change.  We live with the awareness that the thing we know is coming someday is our demise.  This work is about living with the anticipation of an uncertain future.

I use eggs as a metaphor for fragility and uncertainty.  Most of the works are inspired by eggs I photographed in the collection at the Burke Museum of Natural History, Seattle. I let the geographic migration range and natural history of particular bird species guide me to the narratives presented in these images, within the context of “You know it’s coming”, and included top-side views of their eggs.  The narratives pair the eggs with the work.