I am a visual and conceptual artist currently living and practicing in Amiskwaciwâskahikan, aka. Edmonton, Alberta. Working in painting, printmaking, photography and video, my recent work focuses on exploring human and plant relationships at the site of the vegetable garden. With so much anxiety for the future of our planet, my work speaks to my own desire to reconnect with the larger ecological community in order to learn how to build futures that are more liveable. At the site of the vegetable garden, we spend time growing fruit whose bodies will feed back into our own. By slowing down and nurturing these relationships, we can remember just how deeply we are rooted into these ecologies. There is an inherent reciprocity here that must not be forgotten, as we rely on these plants more than we know.

Over the past two years, it has been the predictable cycles of the garden that have kept me grounded through countless personal and social changes. In this way, my gardening practice has integrated itself into my artistic practice, becoming a fundamental part of how I make and understand my own artwork and the world. There is much to be learned by simply sitting in the dirt of our garden boxes, observing the ways in which these plants grow and thrive alongside one another. Using the natural materials from the garden to represent these ecological relationships, I am searching for ways to reconnect and sympathize with the plants that surround and support us every day.