Rooted

15x17 This piece explores the hidden life beneath the garden’s surface. Familiar root vegetables such as radishes, carrots, and beets appear above the soil line, while below ground an intricate world is revealed with winding roots, burrowing insects, stones, and living soil. By showing both what we harvest and what we rarely see, the painting celebrates the quiet complexity of ecological systems that sustain growth. It invites the viewer to slow down and consider the layered relationships between plants, organisms, and earth, an intimate portrait of interdependence, seasonality, and place.