I am a Los Angeles–based interdisciplinary artist exploring the relationship between human psychic life and ecological communities. I am interested in how living systems generate symbolic structures and visual languages. Repeated organic forms accumulate into shifting psychic and ecological maps that oscillate between botanical, bodily, topographic, and ritual associations.
Exploring the intelligence of living systems, I work between ancestral ways of making and bio-based materials emerging through contemporary industrial processes. My aim is to slow perception into an ecological timeframe, altering how we sense, attend, and relate to the world. I create accumulative systems in which organic materials behave simultaneously as specimen, gesture, ornament, and living notation. Through slow, iterative processes, I seek to cultivate intimacy with materials and living systems, allowing form to emerge through sustained attention and care.
Gathering and preserving plant material throughout Los Angeles is central to my practice. These encounters raise questions of reciprocity and responsibility: how much to take, when to leave, and how to remain attentive to the insects, drought, heat, and ecological conditions that shape a place. Intimacy, for me, is a mode of ecological inquiry—a way of knowing through proximity, observation, and relationship.
Our current moment is marked by ecological strain and disconnection. In response, I cultivate a practice of attention that holds fragility, impermanence, and loss alongside beauty, reciprocity, and interdependence. Through teaching, workshops, and public-facing exhibitions, I invite others into more attentive, intimate, and reciprocal relationships with the living world.