(2009 - current)

Psychoactive plants have long fascinated for their ability to alter consciousness, and their roles in healing, ritual, and control. This series centers on specific species that alter human consciousness such as cannabis, kratom, tobacco and opium poppies. The plants are first cultivated in a garden-studio, then scanned or photographed over time and finally digitally reconstructed into composite portraits. These final composite images are built slowly and intuitively until each plant feels fully realized—mythic, radiant, and alive with presence freely floating above the landscape. The work echoes traditions of botanical illustration and still-life but does not have the goal of neutral documentation.These devotional portraits explore how plants carry cultural memory, shift perception, and mirror evolving relationships to nature, medicine and consciousness. Each image presents the plant not as a specimen, but as collaborator and catalyst—an entity that invites us to see differently and think more expansively about our shared natural and constructed world