My current body of work, Resonant Signs: Secret Places, Sacred Spaces, evokes the cosmologies and frequencies embedded in the natural world. Each piece documents a moment in time, capturing the integrity of the land as it existed when the photograph was taken. Together, they serve as time capsules of climate change and endangered species. The “recipe” for each painting reveals the materials, meanings, and narratives shaped—and often challenged—by what lies unseen. Every month carries its own ethically foraged and hand-processed color palette.

Herbalist and educator Pam Montgomery, known for her work in plant spirit healing and for teaching cooperative partnership with nature, reminds us that everything in physical form possesses a vibrating molecular structure—and through vibration, resonance emerges. Pythagoras, father of the musical scale, recognized music as an expression of Harmonia, the divine principle that brings order to chaos. The glass window above each painting, documenting the phases of the moon, echoes this idea while symbolizing the fragility of life.

These works grow out of joyful and spirited encounters with the wild, reminding us that we, too, are nature. Each painting reflects a personal experience with the animal portrayed and incorporates a unique foraged botanical recipe, laked into powdered pigment. The twelve paintings mark the twelve months of the year and are finished with a cherrywood layer over frames inspired by Gothic architecture—a style celebrated for its height, luminosity, and profound symbolic ties to the natural world. Its sweeping arches, branching vaults, and organic forms evoke forests, tree limbs, and the geometry of growth.

Each painting is paired with a companion photograph. The complete body of work consists of twenty-four images—twelve paintings and twelve photographs—each original sign photographed within a natural or indigenous Midwestern palette environment. The work serves as botanical documentation of the dye materials used. These environmental photographs underscore the loss of habitat and biodiversity driven by climate change. The work is significant not only for its use of landscape-specific imagery but also for its incorporation of natural dyes transformed into pigments, alongside materials such as mycelium and glass. All paintings are created on recycled watercolor paper mounted to wood panel.