In order to invent new ways to connect nature to everyday life, I transgress boundaries between art, architecture, landscape, and design. Being very concerned with current environmental stresses, food shortages, and wasteful practices, I link ecological issues to a diverse array of creative operations and tactics. Horticultural installations, interventions, performance foster discussion and generate action in the area of ecological awareness. Whimsically functional yet serious hydroponic plant growth systems, mobile garden machines, botanic “enhancements”, and “portable fields’ promote social responsibility and a more accountable use of natural resources.

Common materials are collected and repurposed/refashioned in order to comment on the real costs of over-consumption. Each work is fashioned to mutate and adapt to new situations and environments. The ephemeral life cycle of these living organic elements echoes the reality of our own fragility. I often encourage my audience to consider art-making a collaborative research laboratory, empowering the community. At times I employ social practices and/or disruptive solo actions that promote social responsibility and a more accountable use of natural resources.

There is no better time than now to investigate and promote sustainable answers to the dynamics of consumption. I address current wasteful practices, food shortages, and environmental stresses through projects that are rigorous and poetic in their conceptual processes where passive viewers become empowered participants playing a significant role in creating a truly sustainable future.