Artist Statement My practice is rooted in drawing as a durational and relational activity, shaped through close observation and iterative mark-making. Images emerge gradually through this process and begin to direct subsequent decisions. At its core, my work considers how sustained attention can make fragile ecological, psychological, and knowledge-based systems perceptible.
My work begins from engagement with my immediate surroundings. I gather materials and references through extended observation of plant, animal, and insect life, often starting from found vegetal matter encountered through walking and attentive looking. These encounters are carried forward into my work through memory and repetition, and images continue to develop across multiple drawing sessions. In contrast to traditional botanical drawing, which has emphasized accuracy and classification, observation in my practice extends across memory, bodily sensation, and association, allowing forms to emerge through relation and accumulation. Drawing functions as a gathering of lived encounters.
My practice is shaped by attention to ecological systems under pressure and to the instability produced by a changing climate. I draw on spiritualist logics, divinatory structures, architectural thinking, and speculative world-building as ways of considering how knowledge forms, and how alternative frameworks can open different ways of seeing and relating.