Christopher Marley “Sea Urchin” Shadowbox and Framed Sand Dollars, in ebonized hardwood framed shadowbox and floating wood gallery frame

“Sea Urchin” 15.5 in. x 12.5 in.  Sand Dollars 24.25 in. x 24.25 in.

Christoper Marley is an artist and designer who got his start in fashion advertising. His work is comprised of subjects collected or reclaimed in an environmentally sensitive manner and arranged with intention to create a tribute to living things and to the joy and beauty they lend our world.

“IN MY MIND, there is little separating art and life sciences. It is like trying to extricate dance from music. Art’s purpose is to heighten our aesthetic sensibilities, to sharpen our ability to experience beauty, to empathize with those life systems we come into contact with, to derive pleasure or stimulation from our interaction with arranged elements, in whole or in part. How does nature differ? We dance with it and within it. The aesthetics (or art) of nature is the rhythm we move to.” ~Christopher Marley