Connect with Nature.

Share Biodiverity Information.

Inspire Art.

The Leaf Connection is a community‑driven art and science project that I launched in 2022 using plant observations submitted through the social platform iNaturalist. I created this project to foster reconnection with nature and environmental awareness of the desert landscape in metropolitan Phoenix. I transformed the observations into an installation of over 1,400 hand‑carved ceramic leaves pinned to a 30 ft. wide map of the Valley. With each leaf representing a specific plant species, where it was growing, and the person who observed it, the evolving artwork highlighted the region’s rich urban plant biodiversity and invited community members and visitors to recognize their own relationship with, and responsibility to, the Sonoran Desert and appreciate it’s beauty. The Leaf Connection installation was on exhibit at Phoenix’s Desert Botanical Garden from August 2024 to August 2025.