Since childhood, I have experienced nature as sentient, spiritually alive, and deeply magical. These drawings and paintings emerge from a ten-year study of natural patterns, seasonal cycles, color, texture, and line formations observed in Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Drawing in gardens, forests, and urban green spaces allows me to reset my nervous system after a busy day in Brooklyn, and I use drawing as both a meditative practice and as a way of deepening my relationship with the environment. Working within the landscape across changing seasons, I study relationships between growth, decay, light, atmosphere, movement, and organic forms.

My drawings move between representation and abstraction, combining botanical and environmental details with intuitive interpretations of the landscape. In these drawings, I am searching for ways to re-establish communication with the natural world and to express the flow of energy, awareness, and interconnected life moving through it. I merge observation with an embodied experience of nature, seeing the landscape as an active presence shaped through memory, emotion, and sensory awareness. Through drawing, I emphasize hidden structures, patterns, and seasonal rhythms that often go unnoticed, exploring the complexity and vitality present within the natural world. The project documents seasonal change, diverse plant life, organic structures, shifting light, and natural patterns in the landscape. Branching systems, surface textures, color relationships, and layered forms become ways of exploring transformation, perception, and human interconnection with nature. I am interested in how observational drawing can encourage people to slow down, look more closely, and develop a deeper awareness of living ecosystems.

For this collection, I am experimenting with translating my visual language as a painter into the medium of glass. The work explores three-dimensional forms through geometric fields of color illuminated by sunlight. I am drawing from my previous body of work, Fragmentation, as well as my visual research into the movement of light through transparent gemstones.

I collaborated with a scientist at AIG to visualize patterns of reflection and refraction using laser technologies. These pieces expand upon the history of stained glass by incorporating the copper foil method and wire to create dynamic sculptural surfaces. The works are not confined to the scale or function of a window; they hang from ceilings, can be mounted on walls, or suspended in front of a light source.