Experiencing an unseasonably warm winter day or admiring a striking sunset can be both beautiful and unsettling—my work explores this tension, where nature’s allure is intertwined with underlying risk, intrigue, and unease. I examine the tension between intellectual understanding and emotional response—how we process the conflicting realities of climate change, environmental preservation, and personal identity.

Raised in Northern California with the Leave No Trace philosophy, sustainability is central to my practice. I transform repurposed materials—particularly aluminum craft beer cans—into botanical abstractions that appear organic despite their consumer origins. By using a product traditionally marketed toward men, my work also challenges gendered notions of craft, identity, and consumption.

The cans are cut, painted, and woven into forms that evoke textiles, blurring boundaries between painting and sculpture, fine art and craft, the industrial and the handmade. Other materials, including copper, steel, textiles, and blown glass, create surreal, alien-like plant forms that embody transformation and adaptation.

The work can feel familiar and strange at the same time. By transforming everyday waste into intricate, organic forms, I highlight the tensions between consumption and sustainability, mass production and the handmade. These sculptures challenge perceptions of material value, gendered crafts, and environmental responsibility, prompting viewers to reconsider the connections between what we consume, discard, and their connections to global environmental changes.