Objective: Encouraging attentive noticing
Research focus: Seasonal interconnections, tangible systems
& food interdependence
& food interdependence
Illustrative Poems at Field & Fork Farm
A series of original illustrations inspired by poems installed at Field & Fork Farm and Gardens, created to extend the experience of ecological storytelling through visual interpretation.
This project responds to Poetry in the Gardens, a public installation developed by students in a Spring 2025 ecopoetry course in collaboration with Imagining Climate Change and IFAS/CALS Field & Fork Farm. The installation placed selected poems throughout the working farm, inviting visitors to encounter literature alongside crops, soil, and seasonal change.
Drawing from my ongoing thesis collaboration with the farm, I selected several poems that resonated deeply and translated them into illustrated narratives. Each illustration emerges from an emotional resonance with a chosen poem, translating its imagery and atmosphere into a visual narrative. Through this process, the installation expands beyond text, inviting alternative ways of engaging with the farm’s stories.
Through illustration, the project continues my exploration of attentive noticing and place-based storytelling, using visual interpretation as a means of deepening reflection and extending the poetic experience into another medium.
Inspirations include the text–image dialogue in Here’s Motion Everywhere, a 1970 children’s poetry collection illustrated by Simms Taback, where poetry and illustration function as interwoven narrative elements. The work is further informed by the botanical expressiveness of Victoria Lacan and the immersive floral environments created by Alexandre Benjamin Navet, whose large-scale, color-saturated installations transform urban space into illustrated landscapes.
Acknowledgement: This project was developed under the guidance of Eury Kim, my Thesis Chair and professor at the University of Florida.
