Illustration

My artistic practice flows through two primary channels of purpose.

First, I create scientific illustrations that highlight the biodiversity rural families depend upon for survival. These works document species, ecological relationships, and anatomical detail, making visible the living systems that sustain precarious livelihoods. This practice extends to collaborations with other scientists who need visual tools to support their research, from anatomy to zoology (and beyond).

Second, I create comics and sequential art that center individual characters within larger systems. Through narrative illustration, I translate complex dynamics into lived experience. These stories place human vulnerability, adaptation, and agency at the center of structural analysis, making abstract systems visible and emotionally legible.

Where possible, I collaborate with like-minded colleagues and friends to bring these practices into our field sites. I believe that art is not separate from research or practice, but a method for seeing and communicating what data alone cannot capture. When placed in communities, illustration and narrative become tools for connection, allowing participants, practitioners, and researchers to recognize themselves within the systems being studied and shaped.

How economic systems create health inequality.

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Outreach

Through a partnership with Wild Wonder Foundation, I have brought the practice of nature journaling to children at my field site in Tanzania as a practical tool for reflection, emotional regulation, and environmental learning. For me as an anthropologist, this collaboration represents a way to translate what we know about human resilience and human–environment relationships into daily practices that foster belonging, confidence, and long-term wellbeing.