ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Never Essence and its constellation of related works explore the porous borders between perception, memory, and ecological relation. Across image, scent, taste, and touch, I work with plants not simply as subjects, but as collaborators, co-composers, and portals to more-than-human ways of sensing.

In this practice, walking is a method, tending is a medium, and multisensory translation becomes an act of care. A bee’s ultraviolet vision, the smell of a prairie after rain, the warmth of oil steeped in darkness, the breath of drying clover are signals and intimacies that exceed the human gaze. I approach them as invitations: to slow down, to attend, to imagine the unseen spectra that thread us to the living world.

The works gathered here are part archive, part ritual, part speculative translation. Never Spectra reimagines plant forms in altered colour fields that suggest other species’ perceptual worlds. Aromagraphia maps scent rather than coordinates, tracing the ephemeral geographies of smell. Never Essence distills the heat and time of seasonal gatherings into oils and teas that function as sensual objects—tools for grounding, remembering, and reconfiguring our embodied relationship with place. Until Next Season and Suspended act as temporal sculptures, holding in space the shifting materiality of plants and what blooms, breathes, dries, disperses, and returns.

Together, these works are an ecology of attention. They dwell in the threshold where art and life, plant and human, material and immaterial meet. In a time when the pace of extraction threatens to erase the subtler registers of being, they propose an alternative tempo: one attuned to seasonal return, intimate exchange, and the long, slow work of perception.