These native plants (mallow, chia, thistle, brittlebush) are rooted and unmovable, adapting to an ever-shifting ecology—surrounded by natural and cultural traces, both human and nonhuman. This series reflects the desert’s layered rhythms, with each image digitally constructed from dozens of photographs. The plant appears larger than life, lifted from the desert floor and mythologized through scale, form, and placement. The resulting works blend still life with speculative landscape, offering a visual ecology shaped by intuition and immersion. Developed during a two-part residency in Joshua Tree National Park, the project draws from time spent observing shifts in season, light, and structure. Desert Sentinels explores how environments are built through accumulation, and how amplified presence can feel both ancient and imagined—evoking the desert not as backdrop, but as a living archive of time, memory, and transformation.