Poison For Arrows - Part 1

Prints created using pigment made with plants growing in the "Industrial Zone."

My current project explores plant-based pigments grown and foraged in the Duwamish Valley with emphasis on bio-accumulators—plants that draw heavy metals
from contaminated soil into their tissues—extracting pigments that carry the valley's pollution
into new form. This work operates as a small act of remediation: pulling toxins from the ground,
transforming them into color, dispersing them to places unburdened by industrialization. This
inverts the usual flow, where contaminated soil moves to landfills near vulnerable communities.
The displacement is actual and symbolic—the plants absorb toxins, and the gesture reimagines
where polluted matter might go.