I have been volunteering as a composter at the Pleasant Village Community Garden in East Harlem (119th Street & Pleasant Avenue) for over a year. 
The garden is my collaborator, stage, studio, and extended gallery. The compost box is my outdoor darkroom, housing hidden regenerators. In this space, agency is shared and interaction is distributed. Ecology—through its sensorial limbs of humidity, heat, and air—nourishes and shapes the exposure. Roly-poly eat through and deliver photograms. Garden soil—layered with glacial memory, construction debris, and microbial labor—becomes my photographic substrate. I do not take these images but receive them, letting the garden speak through its living systems.

These collaborations—with garden members, seeds, compost, insects, and soil—exemplify community gardens as spaces co-created by multiple species in relation. Through this kinship, the photographs resist human-centric authorship and reimagine photography as an entangled, environmental practice. Thus, I bring a piece of the garden into the gallery and take my photographs back into the garden, returning and continuing the cycle of growth, decay, and regeneration.

Find installation shots from the gallery and the garden below-