I collected things like sticks and rainwater, and I used rubbings of leaves and bark. The drawings in my sketchbook, on the left, are done with chalk, pastel and rubbings- on a leaf and a tree. The drawing on the right is drawn with a sharpened stick, rainwater and charcoal ink. I thought this would be useful for my thinking, however I actually found it limiting. Again, I decided to break up my practise here and stop illustrating to re-root the work.
So I made this book. I collect images all the time, often of examples of human-centric nature, such as weeds growing through a pavement or a tree growing through a fence. I randomly placed all of these images into a document and the weird layouts and messy pages made me think about chaos in nature which took my thought process to plant hybrids.