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i am a london-based bulgarian/nigerian ethnobotanist working across botanical collections. my work combines speculative analysis of historical and archival material, ethnobotanical research, and sensory-focused visual ethnography as means for generating more multiverse, relational, process-focused, and horizontal botanical archival research practices. my practice centres nonlinearity, multi-species liveability, and the agency, endurance and the affective temporalities of botanical objects as historical actors capable of narrating alternative histories.

i am is currently undertaking a practice led ahrc/chase funded collaborative doctorate at birkbeck, uol and the linnean society of london - investigating the contributions of black naturalists to eighteenth and nineteenth-century natural knowledge. my research involves the study of botanical specimens and manuscripts held at the linnean society, identifying and tracing hidden actors, mapping knowledge networks, and developing a new decolonial approach for recovering and sharing information from this archive.