I spend hours designing and tending to home gardens through my company, Garden InSites. In contrast, my spare time draws me to wild landscapes—in and around Philadelphia and wherever I travel. These uncultivated, often chaotic places offer a striking counterpoint to the carefully composed gardens I help create. They remind me that beauty thrives in spontaneity, and that even in the absence of control, life insists on form.
This series of collages holds a tactile memory of place. While I mark and layer the papers by hand, it’s the landscapes themselves that I feel taking shape. Some marks are deliberate—carved through woodcuts or guided by stencils—while others emerge spontaneously in monoprints made with water-based pigment sticks. Each piece is a record of rhythm and gesture, a conversation between control and instinct, presence and memory.