Home has organically emerged as an ongoing theme in my work as a way of reframing the environment as something that we can make the choice of tending to every day. Each day, we can make the choice to learn more and care for our neighbors, human and more-than-human.

Sometimes we may let dishes and laundry pile up, but eventually we make the choice to care for ourselves through caring for our home.

Through my Ecology of Home series, I hope to explore the diversity of our ecosystems close and far, talk with people who are working in restoration and in reciprocity with the Earth, and share what I learn through visual and written form.

I’m excited for the upcoming release of Ecology of Home: Volume 1 Cedar Creek. This first volume was inspired by three years of exploration, observation, and learning during my artist residency at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve.

Which I found out is fittingly the birthplace of the field of Ecology.

I explore Old Growth Forests, Cedar Swamps, Prairies, Oak Savannahs, learn from scientists in the field, reflect on women leaders at Cedar Creek in the 1930s, and a scientist with chronic illness who changed our understanding of life in 1941.

If you’d like to support this series of work, I plan to release a perfect bound version (with a little more room for writing) that will be available for purchase here, this May.