I traded my sunny summer days for time spent in a basement - eerily quiet and expectedly dusty.

I worked in the Archaeology Repository of Colorado State University. Numerous hours spent handling and cataloguing approximately seventy bison skeletons stored within the collection. I grouped the same types of bones with one another, and felt as if I was bringing this herd of bison together: a box of vertebrae here, a shelf of skulls there: turning individuals into collectives. I created a series of illustrations representing specimens within the collection. I wanted to experiment with the interplay between representation and abstraction while maintaining an accurate depiction of each osteological specimen.