Making is the lens par excellence through which I explore and communicate human entanglements with the natural world. Rooted in observation, research and fieldwork, my approach extends past formal qualities of beauty to encompass histories embedded within imagery, space and material. In this way of drawing from ecosystem ecologies found in nature and culture, art invokes our interconnectedness to the places we inhabit. 

My primary mediums are drawing – to articulate observations – and clay – characterized as a body rendered through gestures of production and extraction. This duality manifests in my art through two speculative modes: distorted and situated. One mode challenges cycles of erasure and excess in the ornamental way nature is viewed, reimagining instead the human and non-human condition as interconnected and hybrid. The other emerges through familiarity with a space: by observing and navigating landscapes, I notice patterns, gather materials and generate knowledge through site-specific hypotheses. Together, these modes propose alternative ways of knowing and relating to the natural world through practices of stewardship and belonging.