This body of work explores the intersection of human health and the environment. According to the World Health Organization, one-fourth of all global disease is linked to unhealthy air and water. Caring for those affected requires vast systems of hospitals, medical technologies, and disposable materials that, paradoxically, generate additional environmental waste. My work considers this cycle, asking how protecting the natural world might also transform human health.

My use of medical materials is rooted in my experience as a registered nurse, where I developed an intimate understanding of the human body, microbiology, and the fragile balance that sustains life. Advances in genetic science have made it possible to transfer genes between organisms, fundamentally altering their biological structure. While these innovations hold extraordinary promise, they also raise profound questions about unintended consequences. Organisms created through genetic manipulation may behave in ways we cannot fully predict, producing outcomes that range from beneficial adaptation to forms of genetic pollution. My sculptures imagine speculative organisms born from these uncertain intersections, exploring the tension between scientific possibility and ecological vulnerability.

As a nurse, I witnessed the hidden interior of the human body and the ways medical technologies can both heal and traumatize. The same materials that sustain life in the hospital become the raw materials of my studio. Using techniques passed down through generations of women in my family, I weave, knit, and construct forms from medical supplies rather than traditional fibers. Like my grandmother, who was always knitting, I transform humble materials through repetitive, tactile labor, connecting caregiving, domestic tradition, and contemporary science.


By combining medical materials with elements from nature, I create hybrid forms that resemble genetically modified organisms. These objects often appear seductive and beautiful, yet many contain sharp or hazardous elements that challenge the viewer's desire to touch them. Their visual tension reflects the complex dualities that define both medicine and biotechnology: healing and harm, beauty and danger, innovation and risk.

My practice occupies the space between art and science, using material transformation to examine the ethical and ecological consequences of human intervention in the natural world. Through these imagined organisms, I invite viewers to consider the interconnectedness of our bodies and our environment, and the responsibility we bear for the futures we create.