My work explores the crossroads between nature, consumer culture, and imagination, where the pristine and the mythical blur into one another. Drawing inspiration from childhood memories in Colorado's vast forests and more recent experiences in Florida's wilderness, I create environments that hold a mirror to the natural world, evoking both its wonder and the quiet violence we enact upon it.
Through sculptural installations and mixed-media works, I build spaces that feel both familiar and otherworldly: places where plants, wildlife, and human traces coexist in a fantastical yet darkly ironic balance. These worlds act as living metaphors for our relationship with nature — magical, dependent, and systematically undermined by the very systems that claim to value it.
I work with materials that have been recycled, donated, or salvaged, things often considered trash or forgotten. By giving these materials new life, I expose the absurdity of disposability while reinforcing that beauty can grow from what is left behind — turning the discarded into something meaningful and alive.
At its core, my work invites viewers to step into a space where wonder and unease arrive together. I want it to feel like a story they've forgotten but still want to believe in — a place they recognize but can't quite name, one that asks them to sit with the tension between what the natural world offers and what it quietly absorbs for us, an environment where fantasy and ecology, beauty and damage, are not opposites but neighbors.