About

I am an ecological systems artist, educator, and climate advocate working at the intersection of waste, soil, water, and cultural memory.
Through installation, education, and participatory collaboration, I explore compost not just as material, but as method of repair, resistance, and return.

My practice transforms discarded organic matter into living systems that hold water, honor decay, and reimagine waste as infrastructure. These works often take the form of slow-built compost installations: part sculpture, part ritual, part microbial choreography. Though sometimes photographed, the work is alive, impermanent, and built to disappear—restoring soil through tangible, collective climate action.

Composting is a relational act. I make art from what we’ve been told to forget: how to grieve, how to care for land, how to stay with what’s breaking down. I work with what we’ve discarded, not just materially, but culturally.

This moment calls for artists who can metabolize grief, reimagine systems, and grow new ones, with their hands in the dirt and their hearts set on renewal.

This practice extends into public life through The Velveteen Bean, my community compost initiative rooted in waste justice, soil health, and regenerative systems.

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