Against Nature (2026, artist book, 11” x 126”, ed. variée, 10) is hand-colored accordion book featuring photographs of wisteria vines in various seasons.

Invasive plant species such as wisteria, beach rose, and honeysuckle, came to the United States from East Asia by imperial and colonial routes, to serve a distinctly European vision of the garden. Considering  this constrained desire for beauty, and the unintended consequences of its indulgence, I documented invasive ornamental species in gardens, along roadsides and in nurseries. Even using a flash, my black and white photographs looked too innocent- merely pictures of “nature”. I began using a highlighter to indicate the invasive species in each image, a didactic tool on a factual document. As I worked, the highlighter became its own aesthetic intoxicant – the neon colors became riotous, echoing the unchecked growth of the plants.

$450 (25% of proceeds go to Amor RI)

Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute’s “Museum View” of Baroque European palaces—objects of beauty and manifestations of power whose gold encrusted ornamentation points to the colonial activities abroad that made this kind of wealth possible. While the monarchies and empires of the past used beauty as an expression of their authority, technology, in its mediation of the world, often operates without an aesthetic agenda. Throughout this series, the covert power of technology makes itself visible only through accidents such as glitches, a glimpse of the machine in the mirror, the AI blurring the faces of statuary.