Central to my work is an interest in commonly held perceptions of beauty, nostalgia, and waste, and questions concerning what we as humans find valuable.

Captivated by the tactile qualities of seaweed and the stories of the Victorian women who collected it, I gathered the plant from local beaches and then experimented with different chemical and physical treatments in order to preserve their malleability and luminosity. I then attempted, through the processes available to me, to recreate the beauty I had observed upon my initial discovery of the plants in their natural environment. In many ways, this process mimicked my own efforts to maintain my physical appearance.

The resulting works are a transplanted approximation of natural beauty limited by the realities of an unnatural environment.