The Sprout series produced during the artist's residency project at the Children's Museum of the Arts invited visitors to wrap, bind, cut and sew upcycled yoga mats. The resulting sculptures were then installed around columns in the gallery, mimicking the way in which mushrooms sprout around trees. Children and their families could touch and play with the coiled sculptures, moving them around to form cozy seating arrangements. 

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This series was inspired by the playful colors and forms of mushrooms and fungi and the spontaneous and secretive ways in which they grow. The artist also wanted to challenge visitors to view an everyday object, the yoga mat, in a new unconventional way. How and with what effect can we reincorporate discarded materials back into the urban landscape? What is the relationship between the native landscape, the urban architecture and the materials we continue to discard? And at what point do these materials become a part of the native landscape?