2025 | Publication, Animation
Field Notes for Wonder is a project that was born out a desire to connect with the natural world and encourage new ways of looking at the world we exist in.
The project consists of two parts: a series of risograph animations that explore patterns in nature, and a field guide with prompts and readings to encourage different ways of interacting with the world around us.
It can be really easy to get lost in our everyday routine and outside pressures to be productive and to hyperfocus on the self. It is easy to feel like everything beautiful and cool and new and exciting is far away, and we are just stuck somewhere boring and dull, only able to see the interesting from afar—never quite within reach.
The creation of these animations and the prompts in the field guide challenge that. The most intricate beauty is inherent in the natural world and in our everyday surroundings. We don’t need to constantly look for something new to inspire us or excite us or motivate us. Instead, we should simply look in new ways at what already is. It’s about keeping a sense of wonder alive in ourselves —always exploring, always playing, and always asking questions. Look at everything closely! Ask how and why! There is magic in even the most mundane things, if we pay enough attention.
RISO Printed using Steel, Cornflower, and Sunflower
Saddle Stitch
Edition of 50
This project was shown at emerging / being / becoming, the Graphic Design Senior Exhibition at Appalachian State Univeristy in December 2025. As part of the exhibit, viewers were invited to create leaf rubbings and follow some of the prompts in the journals. Exhibit photography by Nicole Evans.