My work explores the sensory relationships that humans have with the natural world. The visual elements in my work beckon us to consider the floating nature of our assemblage of sensory experiences and memories. I am often pulling the background forward and pushing the foreground back, creating a spatial interplay between the subject and its environment. Negative space becomes positive space, and subject matter in the foreground is made up of the materials of the background. I aim to create a visual language that explores what I know about the world and what I may never know. We exist in the world with learned expectations of our sensory experiences. I can recall how a flower petal feels to the touch. What would it be like if an object took on the materiality of another? A flower petal manifests into a cloud. Snippets of memories and juxtaposed moments, fading in and out of each other, are collaged together into dream-like compositions. My drawings, paintings, sculptures and books translate both tangible and intangible parts of nature into different materials, and new experiences. Small, dainty and delicate flowers are transformed to become substantial, solid, out of scale . A soft, velvety flower petal is now solid, smooth and glossy. Enormous landscapes are converted into layers of paper. Distant clouds are brought close, and engulf us, as if we were made of clouds and could feel the soft water vapor on our skin. I aim to convey a sense of weightlessness and translucent light, and to immerse the viewer in the clouds.