My work ranges from drawing to installation, using plant-, fungi-, and mineral-based pigments and materials found in nature, harvested from gardens I tend, or collected from kitchen scraps. The ingredients of my work are alive—even after changing shape in my hands as I process them into pigment, paper, or sculptural material—and continue to change shape on their own as their life journeys them into a transition of color and durability by their own accord and by nature of their biodegradability.
They are not just materials, but lifeforms begging the question: How much might we be overlooking when we think we understand the lifeforms outside of us? And how does the human desire for permanence impact the external and internal health of ourselves and of the native environments we live in?