this is, alfalf and I pick alfalfa all the time, and it makes a nice color.

And they let me take this with no problem Oh, I'm sorry, little bee.

I didn't mean to take your food.

try, I try not to take too much from one plant area because it's not good for the plants, I experienced an ink making project at a workshop I was at, and I was like, this is freaking amazing because it's like watercolor and it's right from the land.

And it's like magic.

I'm glad we caught him before they took him to the compost.

for the most part, it's a lot of thinking, oh, I like that color.

And I wonder if it produces something.

my great grandparents came to the land in 1921 and homesteaded as I've learned more about the history, there was a big rush about tha time to come west and to plant.

And there were a lo of developers that were enticing people from Kansas and Oklahoma, which was where they were from, to come to this new land and be wheat farmers.

that story is kind of the foundation of all of it.

Most o the time when I'm in the studio, I'm really trying to be in the moment, experiencing and reconnect myself to the materials and the natural world.

You know, I think the farther we get from the land, then the more that we don't care for it the way that we should.

And I'm hoping that people when they come to the exhibit, that they will be inspired to go and reconnect to the land through their hands, their body, their experience,