This ongoing collage work repurposes garden magazines, reimagining discarded print material as a resource for creative expression and ecological reflection. By cutting, layering, and recomposing these old pages, I aim to engage with ideas of circular economies, material reuse, and the cultural narratives embedded in garden media.

Garden magazines, often produced with glossy perfection and seasonal consumerism in mind, reflect a particular vision of nature—curated, controlled, and commodified. In deconstructing these images, I seek to open up new ways of seeing cultivated landscapes.

At the heart of this project is a resistance to waste: to the obsolescence of print, to extractive cycles of production, and to the throwaway mindset that underpins environmental degradation. Through collage—a process of careful salvage and recomposition—I explore how past visions of gardening can be transformed into contemporary acts of care, critique, and climate consciousness.

These works speak to the quiet activism found in reuse: a small but deliberate gesture that values what already exists and imagines new life from the remnants. In doing so, the project positions art-making as a site of sustainability, where nothing is truly wasted, and everything has potential.

Abstract Topiary (2023)

Strange Ecology (2023)