STATEMENT
My work examines the resilience and intelligence of native plants and overlooked weeds — the species that survive in disturbed soils, margins, and forgotten edges of land. I see these plants not as specimens, but as witnesses to the ecological and political pressures shaping the places we inhabit.
Working from gathered plant material, I carve, scratch, and build my plates in ways that echo the forces these organisms endure: compression, erosion, rupture, and regeneration. The resulting prints are not botanical illustrations; they are translations of living structures — their roots, umbels, and tangled stems revealing networks of survival beneath the surface.
In these forms I recognize systems of endurance, displacement, and adaptation. Weeds and native plants persist where other species cannot, mapping histories of land use, contamination, climate instability, and human interference. By engaging with their architectures, I aim to give visual weight to ecological narratives that are often unseen or ignored.
The prints hold a tension between observation and transformation. They begin with the specificity of a plant but move toward abstraction, becoming diagrams of resilience — poetic, fragile, and insistent. Through these works, I hope to foreground the quiet but radical presence of the plants that hold together the edges of our shared ecosystems.