My collages consist of many types of paper and materials. I use watercolor, pen, pastels, colored pencil, ink and paints made from plants I’ve grown and leftover dye baths.

I’m part of a community garden down the block from my home where I have a 6’x 8’ plot that I use to grow dye plants, flowers and vegetables. By including these natural Brooklyn grown colors in my work each collage is tied to a specific season, place and feeling.

Plants growing in strange and difficult places, wilting bouquets and wild city gardens are some of the things that inspire me. When a plant flowers they’re preparing to make their seeds. To me flowers signal change and they often have a melancholy feeling. They’re only here for a short time. Drooping flower heads, shriveled leaves, dried flowers, petal-less blooms and seed pods find themselves into many of my compositions.

I hope my work gives to whomever views it, a moment of reflection to think about the small things that bloom and wilt throughout the seasons.