Working primarily with bronze alongside living matter and scent, my practice develops through sensuous encounters with the landscape. I am drawn to the complexity and strangeness of the living forms I find there, and to the conditions, rhythms and exchanges through which our lives intersect. Making becomes a way of dwelling in these encounters, the slow, sustained labour of sculpture itself an act of attention and care. Though implicated in landscape destruction, bronze preserves the intricate natural forms made vulnerable by ecological change, lending weight and presence to beings that can easily pass unnoticed. Its mineral origins invoke dimensions beyond perceptual reach, carrying geological time alongside the ancient biological histories of the organisms I cast. Remaining closely involved with them over the course of this process deepens my sense of intimacy and relatedness with the living world. In turn, this continually renews an instinctive curiosity and immediacy of contact that can become obscured by the momentum of the everyday. The sculptures extend this way of meeting the world beyond my own experience by opening the possibility of greater attunement to other beings.