Years ago, while living in Seattle, I first began to see nature differently after reading Janine Benyus’s book on biomimicry, especially in the way it opened my eyes to plants. Later, I came across John Muir Laws’s book on natural journaling. Both left a quiet but lasting impression on me, though for years that impulse lay dormant. Only after I stepped away from the corporate treadmill did it stir again: a desire to understand how plants work and to record what I saw. That was when I joined a Natural Journaling Meetup in San Francisco in August 2025.
Since then, I have taken up watercolor as well, and the practice has gradually widened into sketching more broadly. Plants, landscapes, and buildings have all become subjects of the same practice: looking closely, understanding more deeply, and preserving moments of wonder through drawing.