This work explores the tension between industrial power and the inherent beauty of the natural world, as I transform discarded plastic plants, fire hoses, and electronic waste to examine our broken relationship with nature and reconcile with my own origins. Growing up in suburban New Jersey, I watched wild overgrowth surrender to manicured lawns, my childhood longing to create handmade dolls met with mass-produced plastic toys. This sadness and loss I felt wasn't just personal – it spoke to something deeply systemic, leaving an emptiness that marketing and consumerism would later try to fill.

Through intimate handcrafting, I infuse care into objects we've deemed dispensable. The slowness of this process becomes a radical act against rapid mass production. Though these materials resist decomposition, their transformation frees them to become something new and somehow more real.