The seasons of life are punctuated by loss, stillness, and growth; I become increasingly conscious of the self as an active protagonist. Amidst a rapidly changing ecosystem, I search for my footprint—vulnerable, failing, changing, retracing. I record day-to-day observations, interconnection, hopes for restoration, and fears of what will be lost indefinitely. Recurring characters intermingle in fictional landscapes: shadowy figures that slide between frames, insects and organisms, the primordial oval (seed or egg), oak trees in salt and forest, doorways between here and there, nautilus shells and apple snails, the kite that eats the snail, the eddying of water, the personality of weather, an endless labyrinth. Nature's inherent structure continues to reveal itself, spilling into our spaces and reminding us that we are guests here.

Through an expansive practice involving artists’ books, drawing, printmaking, creative writing, and installation art, I investigate how we exist in relationship to our environments (interior and exterior) and how we move between them, physically and psychologically. Unfolding against a uniquely Floridian backdrop--my upbringing in Darby in a one-bedroom cabin that my dad built and the yearly hurricanes that permeated our home--I question the divisions we have laid down. I wonder, how can we navigate our environments with renewed awareness and sensitivity? What does it mean to live well? And ultimately, what is the narrative we will leave behind?