An ongoing body of work, installation, and a world building project exploring speculative ecosystems and hybrid worlds suspended between collapse, regeneration, and wonder.
Field Guide for Alien Landscapes is a conceptual framework built around my ongoing Alien Landscapes series, a body of work that I have been developing for over a decade. Through painting, drawing, and more recent spatial interventions, I imagine speculative ecosystems that exist between natural history, memory, and the fantastical.
Inspired by my background in zoology, the project explores adaptation, rewilding, ecological memory, and transformation. Hybrid organisms, biomorphic forms, and interconnected worlds emerge through a visual language shaped by scientific observation, childhood encounters with wilderness, speculative fiction, and contemporary ecological concerns.
Traditionally, a field guide identifies, classifies, and helps us understand the natural world. Here, it becomes something more speculative. Rather than documenting what already exists, it gathers evidence of imagined ecosystems, elusive species, curious artifacts, and landscapes where observation and invention overlap. Instead of offering definitive answers, it invites viewers to become explorers, discovering relationships, patterns, and stories through close looking.
The project unfolds through interconnected chapters. Alien Landscapes introduces expansive ecosystems. Specimens collects organisms that inhabit them. Curiosities gathers fragments, artifacts, and improbable objects from their edges. Spatial Studies explores how these imagined worlds might extend beyond the picture plane, while Field Notes records observations, experiments, and discoveries that continue to shape the project.
Like the worlds it describes, the Field Guide remains unfinished, it is an evolving archive that continues to grow with each new work, observation, and experiment.
An Invitation Into Imagined Worlds It’s been fifteen years. Fifteen years of wandering, wonder...
Everyone knows the story of the frog in boiling water. Supposedly, if you toss a frog into a pot of ...
After the last few weeks of a chilly-sweater-weather-spring we are now in the confused sometimes-war...
