Marilyn Foehrenbach Wirtz

Commissioned by Hudson Valley Seed Company for their Seed Collection Gift Boxes. Released November 2022

https://hudsonvalleyseed.com/collections/gift-seed-collections

This series of work was commissioned by the Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The series reflects a series of fossils in the museum's collection, which would be added to a "touchable fossil" collection in a new exhibit.

This piece was created for the BOTANICA exhibition at Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The piece focuses on the idea of the Lotus flower, and its spiritual significance to Buddhism. The lotus, which grows in muddy waters, symbolizes purity and enlightenment.

“As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world” -Siddhartha Gautama

This piece incorporates three mockingbirds representing three divisions of human passonate emotion: Anger, love, and fear 

A commissioned series of illustrations for the Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. These illustrations were commissioned to be used on a Geological Time Clock for their new exhibit.

A hypothetical book cover for the classic novel "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville