This series is a culmination of a lifetime spent listening closely to nature’s hidden rhythms—underwater, in the rainforest, and in the quiet corners of the mind. It’s also a celebration of the overlooked: the architectural spandrel, the space between more obvious forms.
Announcing My Upcoming Exhibition I’m thrilled to announce that my first exhibition of 2025, Spandrel Spaces: The Art of In-between, will open this May at the Museo de Arte e Historia Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos in Patillas, Puerto Rico. This exhibition brings together over 30 of my recent paintings—created throughout 2024 and into 2025—all of […]
I’m thrilled to share a new series of photographs by the incredibly talented Raúl Quiñones-Rosado, featuring me alongside my latest collection, Spandrel Spaces, captured here at my home, Eye on the Rainforest, Patillas, Puerto Rico. As many of you know, my art is inseparable from the natural world. This collection continues that thread, exploring the […]
My painting and digital work have documented my travels and life. I was born in the 1960s to Zoroastrian parents in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, and moved to Wimbledon, home of the Wombles, in London, UK, at the age of ten.
Ah, the perennial question that has haunted me since I could remember: “Where are you from?” It’s a seemingly innocuous inquiry, innocently tossed into conversations like a gentle grenade, waiting to explode into a hot mess of confusion and awkwardness, which I always experienced as a child. Picture this: Nairobi, Kenya, a bustling city of vibrant […]
In an era marked by global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and habitat degradation, the conservation of endangered endemic plants has become a pressing concern. Eye on the Rainforest, an organization in Puerto Rico, has joined forces with Botanical Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) to address this issue. Their collaborative efforts are focused on […]
Preparing for the arrival of the muse is akin to preparing for a cherished guest; it’s an act steeped in ritual and intentionality. I begin by sharpening my pencils to a fine point, each twist of the sharpener echoing the focus I am seeking to attain.
One might think it’s the fear of the unknown, a common human response towards the unseen dangers that could lurk within the forest’s leafy maze. BUT IT IS NOT. It is the fear of the KNOWN — the stark realities and chilling anecdotes that are the shared burden of women worldwide.
Trigger warning on Part 2: In the face of life-threatening danger, adrenaline can transform us into beings of incredible perception and unshakeable focus. It is a force to be reckoned with, a power that can make the impossible possible and the extraordinary an everyday reality.
Amidst the towering arboreal giants and luxuriant foliage of our project homestead in Patillas, Puerto Rico, I have come to embrace a new role as an aspiring Conservation Horticulturalist.
My life in Puerto Rico was originally sparked by a three-year coral-reef research expedition onboard the Research Vessel Heraclitus, where I learnt to shake off the shackles of everything I had ever known before and developed the avid desire to traverse unknown territories.
As an inhabitant of Puerto Rico’s lush rainforest for the last twenty-two years, I am witnessing a devastating phenomenon firsthand – the severe decline of insect populations in our forest.
Every article I read in our forest library made reference to Frank Wadsworth, so when I met him at the International Institute of Tropical Forestry library in San Juan, I was prepared with thought-provoking questions about the forest I was working and living in.
Many of us struggled to make sense of what had happened, and the emotional toll of the disaster was palpable in every conversation and interaction, at least on the south side of the island. Despite being a category 1 hurricane, Fiona caused more permanent physical damage to the land than category 4/5 Hurricane Maria did five years ago.
Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on the morning of September 20, 2017, bringing winds of about 160 mph to an island that had narrowly escaped the worst of Hurricane Irma’s destruction just weeks earlier. Our project, Tropic Ventures Sustainable Forestry and Rainforest Enrichment Project, established 35 years ago […]
On 21st September, we joined forces with neighbors from Mira Flores, Patillas, and we worked our way down the 184, clearing the road of tree debris, electric lines, and flagging dangerous low hanging lines.
Living in the middle of vast oceans of the biosphere.
