Instructions for Becoming (2026)

A botanical series exploring natural forms as symbolic architecture—plants as memory systems, orientation tools, and living records of time.

Instructions for Becoming explores the quiet intelligence of natural forms—how plants hold memory, structure, and evidence of time. This series began not as botanical study, but as an act of attention: noticing the architecture of emergence in small, often overlooked moments of growth.

A sprout pushing through straw, the geometry of a dandelion, the tension of a bud before bloom—these forms function as more than subjects. They become symbolic systems: living records of resilience, thresholds, repetition, and transformation. Each image reflects the ways nature offers orientation, not through certainty, but through pattern.

Created through digital processes and translated into fine art prints, the work bridges observation and interpretation, using technology not as spectacle, but as a tool for reflection. The images are not intended as documentation of flowers, but as contemporary relics—artifacts of attention that invite viewers to consider growth as both biological and philosophical.

This series asks a simple question: how do we become what we are becoming?