Cleveland Botanical Gardens
"The Crystal Collective"Installation
The Nature of Healing (2025) in partnership with We Are Deep Roots was an exhibition that invited me to sit with the relationship between nature and grief—how flowers, botanicals, and organic spaces hold memory, transformation, and care. In my work, I approached healing as something layered and ongoing, not linear. It’s something we build, return to, and sometimes have to imagine for ourselves.Through this exhibition, I explore how natural elements mirror our emotional landscapes—how softness and growth can exist alongside loss, and how beauty can still emerge in spaces shaped by grief. Being in conversation with over 30 artists across Northeast Ohio, I’m reminded that there is no single way to process or express loss. Each piece holds its own language, its own rhythm of healing.
Within my contribution, I center my sculptural figures—my Crystal Ladies and Bleeb Blob—as living embodiments of care and restoration. I choose to place them within their Healing Gardens, intentional spaces I create that feel both protective and expansive. These gardens are not just environments, but emotional landscapes—spaces where my figures can rest, recharge, and exist fully in their softness. The crystals represent energy, grounding, and alignment, while Bleeb Blob holds a more fluid, intuitive presence—reminding me that healing doesn’t always have structure, sometimes it just needs space.
By capturing them in these environments, I’m creating visual affirmations of what healing can look like—gentle, vibrant, and self-defined. My work invites viewers to imagine their own Healing Gardens, and to consider how nature, whether physical or imagined, can support us through grief, transformation, and growth.
Ultimately, this exhibition becomes a reminder that healing is not something we rush—it’s something we nurture.
My Process
All of my installations and murals start with a sketch so I can visualize placement, color, how the pieces communicate to each other and more.
The Ladies and Bleeb Blobs on view
