Graphite drawing of a woman in profile, overgrown with flowers, with a bird perched above her head
beast in the beginning · from overgrown ink vol. 1

The Visual Work

The women I draw are rarely at peace. They're overgrown, mid-transformation, caught between something they were and something they're becoming.

These drawings inhabit the same world as my fiction, where the line between woman and landscape was never very firm to begin with.

From Overgrown Ink, Volume 1
Graphite portrait of a woman with upswept hair surrounded by branches and crutches
temporarily hobbled can I choose crutches?
Graphite profile portrait of a woman with flowers growing around her neck, face upturned
breathe everything will be okay
Graphite portrait of a girl with braids and a school-style shirt with S+W on the pocket
girl with the braids memory of a break-up
Graphite portrait of a girl in a smocked dress looking back, surrounded by trailing vines
wondergirl scent
Graphite drawing of a girl standing in a kitchen surrounded by trailing flowers
tradwife how to "Marie Kondo" grief
Graphite drawing of a seated girl surrounded by bindweed flowers
bindweed confessions of a girlfriend for hire
Graphite drawing of a reclining woman surrounded by flowers, a skull, and a bottle of Dead Man's Fingers
stupor archaeology of a bottle

Overgrown Ink explores women altered by what they cultivate, and what grows back. Volume 1 sold out its first edition. Volume 2 is forthcoming.

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