Inspired by magic, biology, ecology, and the cosmos, I create works of art in a variety of media from digital illustration to mixed media drawing to watercolors. My creations come from a space of reverence and fascination for nature - honoring both the science and the magic of the weird and wonderful universes (yes, plural) we inhabit. Just as much as I feel our connection to nature is our birthright, something fundamental within our animal bodies that can never be taken away, I also often feel disconnection and estrangement here too, a tense fraying and knotting of this central cord that ties me to the world beyond my skin. I explore these feelings of alienation, grief, memory, and disconnection in my work “the endless forest" (the end of the forest)” as well as in the work of “strange bones” and “chimera,” hybrid creatures inspired by the biological forms of animals, plants, and fungi.