FIELD GUIDE FOR ALIEN LANDSCAPES

An ongoing body of work, installation, and world-building project exploring speculative ecosystems and hybrid worlds suspended between collapse, regeneration, and wonder.

“A traditional field guide names the living world. This one imagines it.”

What is the Field Guide?

Field Guide for Alien Landscapes is a conceptual framework centered around my ongoing Alien Landscapes series, a body of work I have been developing for over a decade. Through painting, drawing, and more recent experiments with speculative spatial interventions, I imagine ecosystems that exist somewhere between natural history, memory, and the fantastical.

Inspired by my background in zoology, the project explores adaptation, rewilding, ecological memory, and transformation. The paintings depict evolving worlds populated by hybrid organisms, biomorphic forms, and interconnected systems that appear both alien and familiar. Drawing from scientific observation, childhood encounters with wilderness, speculative fiction, and contemporary ecological concerns, these works imagine landscapes in a continual state of becoming.

Traditionally, a field guide is used to identify, classify, and understand the natural world. In this project however, the field guide becomes something more speculative. Rather than documenting the known, it gathers evidence of ecosystems that may not yet exist, species that resist classification, and landscapes where the boundaries between observation and imagination begin to dissolve. Instead of offering definitive answers, it invites viewers to become explorers, piecing together relationships, patterns, and narratives through close looking and discovery.

Underlying the project is a fascination with speculative ecologies, cabinets of curiosities, natural history collections, and the human impulse to gather, catalogue, and make meaning from the living world. Yet unlike traditional archives, the worlds presented here remain fluid and unpredictable. Forms mutate, boundaries dissolve, and systems continue to evolve beyond easy categorization.

Field Guide for Alien Landscapes is an evolving project. Additional works,  field notes, installation studies, and writings are currently being added to this page.

The Ecosystem

Field Notes

glimpses from the studio, material experiments, sketches, exhibitions and processes that shape the evolution of these surreal landscapes