I collaborate with the materials and forces of nature, yielding to the inner disposition of substances and encouraging their interaction. The ungovernable flow of water, turn of the seasons, corrosion of metals, and ceaseless passage of time become perceptible through a series of studio experiments. I provoke, observe, and catch moments of flux like an alchemist prodding at nature to reveal her secrets. But rather than demystifying the natural world, I hope to re-mystify it. To remind myself of the myriad, wondrous potentialities surrounding and suffusing us. These experiments rely on plant colorants foraged from marginal ‘wasteland’. Adapted to sites of disturbance and rubble, ruderal plant species are vilified but resilient in a changing ecosystem. To find beauty and utility in them is to draw them into the bounds of relationship. Their colors represent dynamic regeneration and root my artistic practice to place.