artist statement

My work explores the imaginative imprint that nature leaves on us in early childhood. Relating to personal memory and sensory experience, my practice reflects on how natural environments shape our inner lives. Offering solitude, creativity, and discovery. Through this body of work, I aim to create a sense of nostalgia for those formative outdoor experiences. Inviting viewers to reconsider their own early connections with the natural world. 

Growing up, nature was a place of refuge and invention. Trees become buildings, dirt paths into secret routes, every texture, scent, and sound engraved into memory. In my work, I aim to revisit these moments, not exactly replicating them, but to create immersive environments that evoke their emotional response. 

Using natural materials such as wood, leaves, and other plant matter, I build sensory spaces that invite interaction and contemplation. These are paired with glass and metal materials that represent the fragility and strength of both memory and nature. Glass brings light and reflection, acting as a lens to the past, while metal anchors the work with structure and permanence. 

Some works are more intimate and tactile, inviting close observation or touch. Others are installations that surround the viewer in sound texture and space. By incorporating recorded natural sounds and inviting movement through the work, I aim to recreate the immersive quality of being outdoors, exploring, noticing, and feeling. Each piece is an invitation to slow down and remember. How it feels to lie in the grass, follow a stream, or get lost in the details of the forest floor. 

At a time where many of us are getting disconnected from the natural world, this work seeks to open a conversation about what we lose and what we might recover when we forget these early connections. Through memory, material, and multisensory experience, I hope to create spaces where viewers can reconnect with the wonder, freedom, and emotional depth that nature offers us in childhood and still holds for us now.