A Warm Bodies film scene from my installation of the same name is featured in the April 2025 issue of Science New Wave: Ethnobotanica.

Shot during LA's 2024 heatwave, Warm Bodies explores animal sensory systems and makes heat visible in the Ballona Wetlands using an infrared lens on my film camera. The footage shows light waves, usually invisible to the human eye, reflecting off the leaves and flowers in the wetland.

Science New Wave: Ethnobotanica
 As we explore botany through both science and story, we find ourselves not only preserving tradition but also reimagining new possibilities—how plants may guide us toward more sustainable futures, how they spark speculation and innovation, and how our entanglement with the vegetal world stretches across time. ETHNOBOTANICA invites you to contemplate the ways in which plants shape human experience—grounded in memory, blossoming in the present, and branching into the unknown.