Working with encaustic, I create graphic ecosystems by embedding unexpected materials inside many layers of wax. This construction of a suspended reality enables me to investigate complex themes around mental health, personal discipline, and sustainability. Layer by layer, I build up an environment of various mediums presented as simple shapes to represent the beauty of chaos in our lives and our ability to find peace with it. My compositions aim to untangle these universal webs while encouraging reflection, conversations, and constant reevaluation of our realities. Finely ground metals and powder pigments are preserved in a cloudy, almost dreamlike encaustic case. The objects' inclusion in the wax's melting simultaneously represents the duality of building and destroying. It is my way of honoring and trying to understand the complicated nature of being human in the modern day.