an ecology of photographic techniques (ongoing)
10/2025 – 06/2026
As part of a residency at Taft Gardens in Ojai, California, I am researching and designing a visual archive of Taft’s native plants and the efforts to support their communities, including white sage advocacy and planting, oak woodland restoration,
and a prescribed burn, led by Elena Rios and Jaide Whitman in partnership with the Native Coast Action Network.
I am experimenting with the photochemical properties of a variety of different native plants, sourced on-site, with the intention of developing a closed-loop analog process that supports Taft’s ecosystem.
2024 – 2025
Experiments with organic photo developers built with sodium ascorbate
high contrast caffenol grapes from vineyard (pictured)sex wax boxes found washed up on beachwe’wey | romerillo | california sagebrush wild fennel rosemary
california coffeeberry