Stage 1: Drawing: The Foundation of Observation

Every landscape begins as a hand-drawn study. I sketch places where nature and human structure quietly intersect — pipes beside roots, water beside concrete, growth pushing through old forms. The drawing sets the composition and mood. It is the first sense of the terrain before anything else enters the process. This stage comes directly from observation and imagination. It is the foundation — the moment where the landscape first takes shape through direct human intent, before the process begins to evolve.