I was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, and currently live in Providence, Rhode Island, where I graduated from Brown University with bachelors’ degrees in Architecture, Environmental Studies, and Visual Art.
My fascination with ecology, conservation and the natural world extends to my studio practice. My work is concerned with our relationship to the more-than-human world, inspired by archival practices and herbaria, and integrates media spanning printmaking, photo, sculpture, and plant material. In today’s unique environmental context I’m interested in complicating simple boundaries drawn between humans/nature. I’ve shown in venues including the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts in Providence, RISD’s Memorial Hall, the Providence Art Club, and The Pawtucket Arts Collaborative. My thesis exhibition, “Touching grass” was exhibited in Brown University’s List Art Building in Spring of 2025, and I attended a fellowship at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft in the summer of 2025.
My studio practice synthesizes various art-making techniques—photography, pressed and mounted plant matter, collection, print-making, labeling, graphite gridding—to examine how we make sense of the natural world. As highways criss-cross species ranges and runoff transforms rivers into ocean-bound chemical outlets, the already porous boundaries drawn between organic and synthetic, wild and human, dissolve with unprecedented intensity. I’m fascinated by the structures (herbaria, datasets, atlases, archives, maps) offered to order this complexity. How can these sterile, institutional constructions–heirlooms of the same extractive, colonial powers wreaking so much environmental havok– begin to make sense of the messy, emotional, human-nature of the natural world today?
The materials I employ—pulp board, living plants, silkscreened text, vellum, office paper, pressed flora—reveal a key dissonance in my work, between (1) a bureaucratic, cold distancing and (2) intimacy, immediacy, and touch. At the heart of this work is this desire for connection—not a perfect, objective understanding, but a relationship embracing the conflict, turmoil, and the emotional complexity of our role in the environment. In straddling scientific objectivity and emotional experience, I seek an in-between space of productive inquiry, critique and reflection in order to catalyze more holistic engagement with the environment while offering messier understandings of “natural”.