Exploring the interconnectedness of life, my practice investigates my personal human experience within the entanglements of a vast ecology of shapes and beings. A web of physical and emotional complexities form a beautiful, yet vulnerable and difficult existence. How have we been shaped and what does that space feel like? The ways in which we connect enter into a realm rich with imagination and unknown futures. Here, language fails us and facts falter. Our perspectives compose our realities — can we shift it a bit? What if we step into a sphere that allows us to transform our configuration, to bend with the wind, to extend our roots beyond ourselves, beyond our own kin? Perhaps paradise is not some distant land to grasp for, but is right here — and in need of tending to.

Through intricate drawings and paper assemblages, I create thresholds that navigate us into worlds where our perspectives and narratives can be shifted, and our curiosities heightened. Fostering my kinship with the natural world, I transform plant materials and soils into inks and paper — a sensual, slow, and messy process. Many of these plant materials will fade and distort with time — like us, like everything. As we consider this impermanence and transformation, how does this alter the way we perceive this moment, this place, our bodies, our relationships, and even art? Tangled thickets of paper both conceal and reveal. One must step closer to fully see what is present. Organic shapes, delicate linework, and muted earth tones create a sense of beauty and lightness — not a lightness that creates a false utopia, but rather a lightness that responds to this weight with tenderness, curiosity, and reckoning. By processing and transforming my own narratives through this work, I ask viewers to inhabit this place with me: an imaginative space that holds an abundance of complexities—uncertain shadows, tender expressions, fearsome beings, murky waters, and hopeful growth.