Despite working primarily as a painter, the concept for Cosmos out of Chaos has come from a lifelong accumulation of materials and love for animals and the outdoors. You could say it all started with an ever-growing pile of retro National Geographic magazines that she used to dumpster dive for as a kid in search of pullout maps and tales of faraway lands, which also inspired her eventual love for adventure. Overtime, more materials got added to the mix such as vintage photographs, more maps, old Siera Club magazines, Gardner Dam development propaganda booklets from the 50’s and 60’s, and old pro- and anti- forestry pamphlets from the 60’s onwards. This mishmash of material collecting into her years at university eventually became fueled by a fascination of how people connect to the land, especially looking at historical or past perspective and how that has influenced writing, art, legislation, and development. As the pile of magazines and maps grew alongside concerns for the climate crisis, so did her idea to overlay drawing, painting, and collage on to film photographs of places where humans and/or climate change have largely impacted the environment.