Amy Boone-McCreesh is an artist liv­ing and work­ing in Bal­ti­more, Mary­land. I first saw her work while view­ing the Tow­son Uni­ver­sity MFA open stu­dios back in 2010.

Via her web­site, “Tak­ing inspi­ra­tion from cel­e­bra­tory and funer­ary dis­plays in var­i­ous cul­tures, Amy aims to explore dec­o­ra­tion and human rela­tion­ships.” I find our rela­tion­ship to objects a very inter­est­ing one, and the rit­ual and often­times com­fort asso­ci­ated with adornment.

Amy’s use of rep­e­ti­tion, mate­ri­als, and her instal­la­tion of sculp­tural work gave me the feel­ing of an altar or memo­r­ial. The indi­vid­ual ele­ments are com­pletely dif­fer­ent, yet they are all arranged in a metic­u­lous man­ner, as if it is an arrange­ment built by not one per­son, but many.

All images via her web­site.