Taking an interdisciplinary approach, my practice explores the ways language, ecology and material culture shape one another. I am interested in how landscapes function as living archives, carrying traces of environmental change, colonial histories and more-than-human forms of memory.
Rather than treating nature as a passive backdrop, my work considers how plants actively shape place, perception and cultural meaning. Drawing on botany, ecology, archaeology and the history of natural science, I investigate how systems of classification, naming and collecting have influenced our understanding of both landscapes and ourselves.
In Invasive Archives, encyclopaedias of geography and natural history, invasive plant species, botanical specimens and sculptural forms are brought together to question fixed ideas of native and alien, natural and constructed. Books are transformed into sculptural objects in which text, image and material coexist, while plant skeletons, paper, porcelain, wood and metal become carriers of ecological and cultural memory. By dismantling and reassembling archival materials, the works suggest that archives are never neutral but continually rewritten through environmental change.