In 2021 I was invited to create a site-specific artwork for Meta Open Arts by FB curators Tamar Benzikry and Lele Barnett. It was an incredible opportunity that built upon my current body of work with accordion books. Here I used bent steel accordions wrapped in inkjet-printed kozo paper. Each column depicts flora from contemplative walks during the pandemic. Together, they create a grid of color that pushes each fragmented image between abstraction and recognizable imagery. The predominant plants I photographed are the invasive gorse and Scotch broom. Alongside this installation, I collaborated with poet Devon Wootten who created an artists’ book titled “Absence and Abundance” which draws upon excised language from the USDA’s report “Biology and Biological Control of Common Gorse and Scotch Broom.” The poem takes the rhetoric of invasion and turns it into a meditation on the hopeful possibility of connection. The work was installed in June 2021.