The Cambrian Explosion series looks to push the boundaries of painting to uncover the creative origins that cling to viability. A cumulative sequence of painted fossils manifests themselves into a sudden burst of life. These are missing relatives, the ancestors of emerging forms. Each surface is an isle of exploration in an archipelago of vigorous fauna. There is a morphological bond between the chains of transforming creatures. Precipitous discoveries mark these islands of possibility. 

The Cambrian Explosion series follows the Nature Under Glass Series. Both series have roots in Elisabeth Vedrine’s sense of the fragility and wonder of the natural world. The Cambrian Explosion refers to a period in Earth’s history when many new species of plants and animals arose in a short time period. Nature Under Glass expresses her sense that the natural world as we know it may be known to our children only through museum exhibits, separated from direct experience by a layer of glass.