Stage 1: Drawing: The Foundation of Observation

Every landscape begins as a hand-drawn study. I sketch sites where nature and human structure quietly intersect: pipes beside roots, water beside concrete, growth pushing through built forms. The drawing sets composition and mood, the first sense of the terrain before anything else enters the process. This stage comes directly from observation and imagination, and the decisions made here govern everything that follows. The hard line of the structure and the loose line of the growth meet on the page, and where they meet is where the condition first appears. It is the foundation: the moment the landscape takes shape through direct human intent, before the process begins to build.