As lifelong city dweller, I was gob smacked by the wonders of the natural world when I moved half time from Brooklyn to rural Vermont fourteen years ago. I became obsessed with planting a terraced horticultural habitat of topiaries, fruit trees and perennials. I went at this full tilt for two summers until it began to feel as if the plants were the puppet masters and I was but a zombie with a shovel under their direction.

The mature garden gives me a front row seat to the irrepressible urge of botanical growth, the changes in color, size, and texture of plants as they war with one another for space and light. Creating this park like environment profoundly re-shaped my perceptions of nature’s life forces and reinvented my ideas of landscape – discoveries that are at the foundation of my work. My goal is to have the site function as a living, dimensional, landscape painting and now that the plants are coming into maturity, this

vision is being realized.

I aspire to create magical worlds where the principles of nature are reimagined and hybrid plant/animal characters act with supernatural animation. These botanical creatures are free radicals - equal parts Cubism and Looney Tunes.  Radiating a grow-or-die ethos they cartwheel through unearthly climates with zest and bravura.  My work reflects the instability of life and its changeability in a widening world. It also serves as a testament to the belief that, in spite of the fearsome decline of our environment, life continues on. And often with exuberance.