New York is a city of bright lights with dense populations crammed together, stacked one on top of another in skyscrapers. Throughout these unnatural jungles of concrete, brick, glass and metal, nature plays its own role by helping to create healthy green spaces for interaction and public sanity. Despite growing up in New York City and majoring in Growth and Structure of Cities at Bryn Mawr, nature has always been a large part of my life, from summer camp in Central Park to working on a farm and more. 

These intersections between the city and the country have directed my art to find overlap and contradictions between these two important parts of my life. Looking directly out of my apartment window, you see the city, building after building. Step closer to the windows, and look to the side, the view broadens and Central Park can be seen peaking through the concrete jungle. In looking and thinking about this, I find it interesting to see the intersections of nature and the city, the inorganic and organic. The use of wood and the method of cutting it by using a laser cutter into almost perfect shapes that are not found in the natural world mimic both the horizontality and verticality of a cityscape and its underlying topography. The prefect lines and geometries found in the city are mixed with organic elements of nature to combine my two interests.