Sow the Seeds.
What daily, unglamorous effort actually builds over time.
You can push a button and have almost anything delivered within the hour. Scroll Instagram and see across the world instantly. Tell Claude to build you a spreadsheet in one prompt. We’re being trained, daily, to expect ease.
So naturally, as artists and designers, we expect our own work to move at the same speed. We want the finished house. The completed painting. The website-worthy vignette…without ever seeing what it took to get there.
On Wednesday, my wallpaper collection launched with Chasing Paper: July 22, 2026. But “launch day” is a little misleading. It actually took 687 days, plus a lifetime of seeds sown before that, to grow into this.
The Paintings
I started painting the botanicals that would become this collection in September of 2024. Two years (an eternity, by today’s standards). I’ve kept studying and evolving that “abstract botanical” language since, until it became something recognizable as mine.
The Repeat Patterns
I spent about six months turning those paintings into repeat patterns, entirely digitally. No worrying yet about where or how they’d be used, just making. Then came the editing: pulling prints into a collection that told one story instead of many. Then a Look Book, built for creative directors and founders to actually see the work. Y’all. This stuff takes T I M E.
The Reaching Out
In April of 2025, I reached out to 21 companies I admired: ones that felt aspirational for where I wanted this work to go. Cold emailing. Unglamorous. A few people wrote back, but none of it was quite right. Then Elizabeth Rees, founder of Chasing Paper, emailed. She saw exactly what I’d been hoping someone would see.
The Collaboration
Once we started shaping what this collection actually wanted to be, I had to edit even further. What works on a dress can look horrendous on a wall. I reconsidered every colorway, every scale, every repeat…essentially the whole collection, start to finish. Then came production proofing: printing swatches, hanging them up, and editing again. Too muddy. Too much contrast. Too busy. More seeds to sow.
The Favors
During the mock-up process, I called in a few favors. I asked two people (and wonderful friends) whose eyes I trust completely — Hannon Doody of Hannon House and Yancey Martin of Mosaic — to look at the collection with fresh eyes. Pick their favorites. Help me with scale. Hannon went a step further and installed the paper in her own home, living with it before anyone else in the world had the chance to.
The Photography
Finished swatches. Final approvals. A client and another dear friend let me test the paper in their own homes too. At the end of it all we had 4 houses, 5 vignettes, and 8 rooms to shoot. In April of this year, four women with four different creative perspectives pulled a cohesive story out of several homes, including my own, in two days flat. Photographed by Anna Spaller. Styled by Esme Oehmig. Spearheaded by Kate Tischer, Chasing Paper's Director of Customer Experience and Creative Strategy. And me, the artist behind the patterns on the wall.
The Launch
After the final images were chosen, the press release written, the product photos cropped and named—only then could Chasing Paper go live and “launch.” One small word for two years of work.
It took one day to launch. It took a lifetime of seeds to grow it. Moral of the story…keep going!! Keep doing the small things, one day at a time. Even if you don’t think those little things are ever going to grow anywhere, they’re all part of something bigger.
And…little seeds can, one day, add up to big, beautiful flowers on your wall.
Best,
where can we see the collection? fabulous!
A gorgeous collection created by the best!!