Living Sculpture

Using local natural materials, living plants and sculptural paper pulp dissolve, grow, and transform into each other.

Milkweed Interbeing

2026, milkweed, flax, cotton rag, seaweed, grapevine, daylily, coreopsis, lupine, forsythia, New England aster, purple coneflower, creeping thyme, beeswax, twine. 5 x 4 x 4 feet. Osamequin Farm, Seekonk, MA.

Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is many things, all at once—beautiful papermaking fiber, meadow species, monarch caterpillar protector, liminal plant that grows in disturbed areas, and with a scientific name evoking Asclepius, Greek god of healing.

This sculpture continues to transform through the seasons, moving through growth, decay, weather, weeding, and weaving of forsythia branches.