ARTIST STATEMENT: My paintings depict plants as a way to re-establish the forgotten reverence for the unseen forces in nature. Because our digitally driven, capitalist society separates us from our Paleolithic instincts, sensitivity to the natural world is endangered. By cultivating reverence for nature through curiosity, I establish this reconnection. My paintings explore this concept of botanical wonderment in an aesthetic interplay between seeing and thinking, between representation and abstraction, and between lost and found.