Genius Loci

This body of work extends my investigations into the relationships between science, natural history, landscape, and personal experience by shifting how those relationships are constructed and perceived. Rather than pairing images side by side, this work is built in layers - physically and conceptually. Printed on thin mulberry paper and coated in encaustic wax, translucency merges ideas through images suspended together. The images remain slightly separated in space yet inseparable in perception, reflecting how these subjects coexist in memory and experience.

This layered structure mirrors the way meaning forms in lived experience, through simultaneity rather than sequence. Observation, knowledge, emotion, and intuition do not replace one another; they accumulate. By allowing images to overlap, obscure, and reveal one another, the work resists singular interpretation and instead invites slow looking. Meaning arises in the space between layers, where transparency, depth, and materiality reflect the complexity of how we understand the natural world through both empirical systems and personal, poetic experience.