As a plant physiologist and multimedia visual artist, my practice explores how attention to the living world cultivates ecological consciousness and human connection. Rooted in contemplative practice and rigorous scientific training, I work across botanical illustration, experimental ink-making, and immersive light installation. My recent work investigates material continuity between subject and medium, using inks derived from sustainably harvested plants to create paintings that carry the specific chemistry of the landscapes they depict. Throughout this work, I navigate the intersection of ecological grief and beauty, creating conditions for collective presence.

In the field, I have witnessed leaves desiccate under prolonged drought, gathered bark from trees since felled, and observed fungi metabolizing fallen logs into soil. These encounters dissolved the boundary between observer and observed; I came to understand myself as a participant in the same cycles of transformation. My work distills these moments into presence: hours of traversing, observing, and harvesting condense into paintings that carry that attentiveness into the gallery. I seek to offer viewers the same dissolution, the recognition that they are not separate from the living world but continuous with it. Standing before transformed materials, they may discover what I discovered in the field: that witnessing impermanence opens us to both grief and wonder, and that holding both connects us to all living beings in a time of ecological reckoning.