Photographs (Archival Pigment Prints)
12 x 19 inches


This series of photographic prints is part of a larger body of work titled The Wildflower Project. The project explores themes of nature, extinction, family narratives, and feminist movements in science through a collection of botanical plant ephemera assembled by my maternal grandmother, Dolores Lad, between 1983 and 1996. Her collection includes mounted botanical specimens, pressed flowers between old newspapers, 35 mm Kodachrome slides of wildflowers, and meticulous journals documenting her observations of plant life. I was a resident at Stove Works in June 2024, during which I produced The Plain Dealer 1985-1986, a series of prints that are part of The Wildflower Project. Pressed flowers overlap pages of newspapers from when they were collected, prompting questions about the interaction between the socio-political world and its ecology. Headlines such as State of Siege in Bolivia and Virgin wonders how far is too far? speak to the contemporary political concerns present when the flowers were gathered. This layering prompts me to reflect on the relationship between the natural world, broader social movements, time, and our understanding of history.