Botanical Feltings

Felted wool artwork of a stem of orange Columbia lilies, with a mountain landscape in the background.
“Glacier Peak Lily,” 24×32 inches, 2023.

Funded in part by Arts for All Kentucky, “For the Trees” is a collection of work that celebrates small, often-overlooked moments of natural wonder. In this series, I explore how a bottom-up, detail-oriented processing style—common in the autistic experience—can shape a deep and intimate relationship with place. Each felting features a few trailside blossoms, branches, or rocks rendered in sharp focus against a softened background, inviting viewers to consider the power of attention. Something that might seem incidental on a long journey becomes the central subject, encouraging a slower, more curious way of seeing the natural world.

Felted wool artwork of a stack of rocks in the foreground with a meadow and mountains in the distance
Felted wool artwork of pink flowers in the foreground with a trail leading away to mountain peaks
Felted wool artwork of pink flowers growing on a rock next to a blue mountain lake. At the far side of the lake is a gray ridge of snow-covered mountains.
A felted wool artwork of a desert landscape, with golden poppies in the foreground and stretching to the mid-ground and a trail winding into the image on the right side. In the background, mountains are silhouetted against the blue sky.
Felted wool artwork of a sloped mountain trail, with blue, white, and red flowers growing trailside.
Felted wool artwork of a many-branched oak tree, from the perspective of a person standing beside the tree and looking upward.
Felted wool artwork featuring bright pink tubular flowers in front of sand-colored boulders. In the distance, beyond a thin line of pine trees, are blue-green mountain ridges.