“Through my work, I hope to incite contemplation around the ways human beings can establish reciprocal and mutually beneficial exchange with other human and more-than-human beings on material and symbolic levels. My artistic research is developed in collaboration with the people, animals, plants, and places with which I interact as I live my life: mulberries from a tree in my backyard and the insects they attract, the dry leaves my children bring home as they walk from school, the snow piling over a table in the porch, the cosmos flowers swaying all along my street, a friend willing to pose for a portrait. The relationships I form are at the center of my creative endeavours.”