My work investigates the umwelt: the premise that each organism inhabits a distinct sensory world, and that the nature we recognize is only one perceptual slice of a much larger field. Introduced by the biologist Jakob von Uexküll and brought back into contemporary discourse by Ed Yong, the concept proposes that the collective experiences of animals together create the world.

Recent works in watercolor on wood panel reconstruct how a beetle navigates a flowering tree, or how a dragonfly, a nymph, and a frog each perceive the same pond differently. The work is speculative; it has to be. But it draws on current research into non-human perception to propose that the pattern and structure we attribute to "nature" is actually the overlap of many simultaneous worlds.

Trained as an architect at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and now teaching at Carnegie Mellon, I've spent a decade thinking about how structure emerges from the relationships between materials, bodies, and atmospheres. My current work is a continuation of that inquiry, now directed at systems I did not design and cannot fully see.