I’ve always been drawn to the space where things connect. I often get asked how I ended up working between digital and physical art.

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It didn’t start that way.

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I studied studio arts and began in ceramics, learning to trust a process that doesn’t always go as planned. At the same time, I was creating digital work, building layered cityscapes and abstract environments that lived entirely on a screen. At some point, those two worlds stopped making sense as separate.

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I started experimenting with bringing digital imagery into physical form. That shift changed everything and sparked an ongoing curiosity around how something digital can become tangible, textured, and immersive.

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Nature is always at the core of it.

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I’m drawn to patterns, movement, and the way everything feels interconnected beneath the surface. The same rhythms found in nature begin to appear in cities and the environments we build. That overlap is where most of my work lives.

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We’re living in a time that feels loud and disconnected. My work is a response to that. It’s meant to slow things down for a moment and offer a sense of connection again.

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To nature. To each other. To something just beneath the surface.

Thank you for being here and allowing me to turn this curiosity into something I get to do every day.

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-Ilene