“How Does Your Garden Grow,” is a 2011 installation at the Crane Hall, Philadelphia. The materials are wallpaper, tree branches wrapped in seam-binding tape, fringe, and porcelain doilies.

I “harvest” materials from the natural world — tree branches, pine cones, acorns and suchlike — and combine these items with other found objects, floral wallpaper or fabric, and newly created ceramic objects into indoor site-specific installations. These installations promote cross-pollination between outdoors and indoors and create a dialogue between nature and artifice. “How Does Your Garden Grow” in particular represents the moment in high summer when growth is at its lushest and hanging fruit — the porcelain doilies, perhaps — are ripe and perfect for picking.