If we see ourselves in nature, and nature in ourselves, how might that shift the ways we engage with others and the natural world around us? To explore this idea, I let the same curiosity lead my media choices through painting, cyanotype, collage, embroidery, paper mache, and others, in ways that evoke meaning. 

The studio space is in constant conversation with the garden; informing, inspiring, and inviting collaboration. It provides plant cuttings that go into the work, and the same sunlight that feeds these plants fuels the cyanotype process. The stitches I adopt from root samples in addition to embroidery samplers. I use painting in ways that both directly add to the image, and indirectly through painted photographic negatives.

In exploring the relational element, I engage imagery that is more familiar to our human experience as an entrypoint to wonder. It is an invitation to be introspective and curious about our own ways of interacting with the people and the larger world around us. If we consider this for a moment together, allow it to take root, I look to what we can cultivate.