About This Artwork: Dr. Edvard Salvador Hawaiianstein is a character I made up who is a kind of mad scientist. He is responsible for creating my soft sculptures that are mostly featured inside Erlenmeyer flasks. Here, he is in his laboratory creating new nail polish colors while working out the formulas for the best possible Bacterribles, which are odd-shaped relics that are fuzzy and soft, or starched and hardened with a variety of chemical compounds and substances unknown to most physicists of our planet (Earth). Some of these squeak with sounds that secrete their inner-sensory membranes. While most of these forms are made-up from pure imagination, these organisms are inspired by their environments of bacteria, fungi, disease, atoms and cells, as well as evolution, sea life, animals, cartoons, and visions. Dr. Hawaiianstein is a pretty important guy if you ask me.