Alpine Botanical Quilt One plants Middle School Cliques is my

Middle School Cliques is my impression of those first weeks

Ornaments are wrapped individually in gold-speckled tissue paper and placed in a gold-foiled pouch

this lone cypress still stands

Gone was the small classroom with friends I’d had since kindergarten

and charcoal

Alpine Botanical Quilt One plants Middle School Cliques is myMixed Media 30" x 40" x 2" on stretched canvas I spent my summer in the Vail Valley, a charming community nestled in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, creating cyanotypes from the plants around me. It's a passion I've pursued for the past two years, and I love discovering new species on my hikes and clipping favorites to produce vibrant blue sunprints. To capture larger botanical elements, like grass fields and trees, I photograph them with my iPhone and