I am currently working on a book that celebrates and contemplates so-called invasive vegetation – specifically “garden escapees” — to reconsider the meanings of beauty, belonging, and home. Each chapter combines personal narrative, history, and drawings. The drawings, studies of individual specimens, exuberantly express the essence of each plant and emerge from my curiosity about their energies, forms, and prolific presences. They are literal through lines from plant to me to page to reader and another way to give voice to vilified lives.