Through the wasteland of human civilization, as we leave behind structures, graffiti, and trash to create our neoteric environment; nature must find a way to recover.   New growth forms on forgotten structures.  Lichens and molds reclaim buildings and lost artifacts.  Mushrooms and fungi rediscover and rebuild; creating a new architecture. 

The kingdom of fungi has enumerable healing qualities on both a biological as well as a physiological scale. Ethnolichenology, the scientific study of the relationship between lichens and people is a foundational point to my thesis research.    I have been investigating Ethnolichenology and the relational qualities to urban decay, structural deterioration and its trans-formative and therapeutic properties.

Engaging the viewer with socially and environmentally crucial topics is an important part of my work.