Artist Statement
I am a self-taught field mycologist and artist exploring the intersection of fungi, ecology, and alternative futures through immersive workshops, foraging experiences, and multi-sensory installations. My work transforms spaces of decay into sites of possibility, weaving together ethnomycological research and community practice to reimagine our relationships with the more-than-human world.
My work arises in the tension between mourning fractured ecologies and imagining how life might still be sustained, remembered, and remade. In fungi, I recognize a mirror for this plurality—their porousness and persistence resonate with the fluidity I have always felt within myself. They urge me to unlearn anthropocentric ideas of permanence and progress, and to imagine survival instead as distributed, interdependent, and always in process.
My practice grows directly out of foraging: collecting fungal specimens, soil, and other found materials, creating prints from spores and mycelium, and working with cultures that shift and decompose over time. Rather than treating fungi as matter to be shaped, I approach them as collaborators. Most recently, my foraging practice has led me to inquiries into what I call 'Phantom Ecologies': spectral entanglements in the Delhi Ridge Forest, such as one between Prosopis juliflora and the stinkhorn fungus Itajahya, improbable co-migrants of colonial plantation.
I envision my practice as a mycelial methodology: expanding through varied mediums, creating mutualistic mergers with human and more-than-human worlds. What emerges, in a time of accelerating ecological loss, are experiments in survival and kinship—unruly, imperfect, and oriented toward futures otherwise.