In 2022 I began a painting of ghost pipe, but it refused to become a portrait. It asked instead to be a field—a map of unseen relationships, of decay and emergence simultaneously. As I painted, I found myself not just documenting a plant, or even designing a new research program, but participating in the re-creation of the world.
Painting as process / The world is being created
Ghost pipe as a guide; art as a method for ecological inquiry and world-making.
