In Jorge Luis Borges’ The Circular Ruins, the main character creates a man through the process of dreaming. Night after night, new elements appear: entrails, arteries, the operable chambers of a beating heart. This “Adam of Dreams” is detailed precisely, exacting the fold of an eyelid and the variation of innumerable hairs. Acting as taxonomist, designer and alchemist, Borges and his character create fictions, descriptively elaborate and idealized to their liking.

Employing a process much like Borges’, details amass to generate form. Sampling from myriad scientific, art historical and literary references, fantastic constructions emerge from both observation and invention. Select influences include diverse flora and fauna, biological phenomena, mythology and Baroque, Rococo and Victorian ornamentation. Elements that cross disciplines and centuries mingle within the imagination, generating opulent artifacts, dense dreamscapes and burgeoning forms.