As an artist and conservationist, my work focuses on the holistic and care-full expansion of our notions of human stewardship of the land. I find delight in deep, repeated, and close engagement with the communities of more-than-human life that run through our own. These interactions allow me to explore the stories that the land and its members hold and, then, to facilitate and create communal celebrations and expressions of care for these stories and their carriers. My work is defined by acts which both reinforce the animacy of land and question the distance and stillness of landscape through return and re-connection: to restored tallgrass prairie or oak savanna areas recently exposed to communal stewardship by prescribed fire, to these same areas in daily botanical illustration, to natural materials, slowness, and quiet.