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Lucanus cervus / Dorcus parallelipipedus, 2025
2 ft x 2 ft. Branches, flax, wasp paper, hosta, hydrangea, sunflower, willow charcoal, medicinal plants, tea, leaves, rose, lavander, rudbeckia, goldenrod gall, birch ash.
Anax junius, 2025
24 x 22 x 6.5 “. Flax paper, milkweed paper, sunflower, cottonwood, wool, seeds (Goldenrod, milkweed, echinacea, rudbeckia), wasp nest, roots, foliage.
Anax junius, the common green darner, is a dragonfly of nocturnal emergence, weaving through wetlands in collaboration with Solidago spp.
Nid d’amendement, 2025
2 ft x 1.5 ft
Wool, milkweed, wasp paper, iris leaves, goldenrod, echinacea seeds, hosta, hydrangea, white pine, maple.
Gentle research installation, process as an intimate making. The wool pattern engages with my home as a nest of care that holds and situates vital rituas; fermentation, seed banking, tea practices, reading. Considering how a table mat live through stories, food stains, through sharing and touching of ingredients, home recipes.
Made with wool from my hometown that I have processed fully, and dyed with community garden allies.
Hemerocallis, 2024
4.5 ft x 3ft
Epilobium pratense - nidification de la décomposition, 2024
3 ft x 3 ft. Flax, wasp paper, seeds (Achillea millefolium, Trifolium pratense, Echinacea purpurea, Asclepias syriaca, Hypericum perforatum), jute, leaves, twigs, wood, sheep fleece, corn husk, fairy stone, willow ash, jade, moonstones, milkweed seeds and silk, organic brown bag, rocks, rosehips, cedar.
Epilobium was pulled by the wheel of site-specific healing; grounds, soil, backyards, community gardens, woodlands, and ravines to foster dialogue, unearthing the secrets that intentional humility and ritualized fertility can assemble in collectivity. Can we experience decay as liberation, as a path to collective repair and mutual aid? What if decay was soft like a honey bath?
Petal of Venus, 2023.