Mapping Materials and Ecologies is an ongoing body of work that combines drawing, painting, and printmaking to explore the relationships between scientific research, material process, and environmental storytelling. Inspired by coral reef ecology, restoration initiatives, and climate resilience, I develop modular visual systems built from grids, symbolic motifs, and layered patterns. Drawing from scientific mapping, digital gaming, and ecological networks, these compositions invite viewers to navigate speculative worlds where abstraction and observation intersect. Each work evolves through an interdisciplinary process. Drawings made with colored pencil and ink on archival paper and translucent vellum become gouache paintings that investigate color, transparency, and composition before expanding into silkscreen and relief prints. Rather than reproducing images, printmaking becomes a method of constructing increasingly complex visual ecologies through repetition, overlap, and variation. My practice explores how scientific knowledge can be translated into accessible visual languages—creating spaces where research, play, and imagination encourage new ways of thinking about ecological resilience and our relationship to the natural world.
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