My practice is rooted in the tradition of field naturalists — artists and scientists who believed that the act of looking closely at something was itself a form of argument. I work in graphite and ink on archival cotton rag, applying the observational rigor of natural history illustration to subjects the contemporary world tends to overlook: the tidal margin where ecological succession happens on abandoned hardware, the pharmacological intelligence of poisonous plants, the biological event that has unfolded on the Delaware Bay coastline for 450 million years without most observers noticing.

Each drawing is a document. The subject is always in the process of becoming something else — alive becoming dead, natural becoming artificial, intact becoming colonized. I am less interested in what a thing is than in what it reveals when you look at it long enough.

I am based in Kent County, Delaware.