Introduced to the US from Japan first as rootstock for ornamental roses, then promoted for use as erosion control, multiflora rosa now grows aggressively across unmanaged landscapes, forming dense, tangled thickets that disrupt native ecosystems.
These images find moments of delicacy amidst an otherwise chaotic structure of arching canes and piercing thorns. The images invite the viewer into the world of the rose, a world of sprawling, interwoven geometry and perpetual growth, offering a poetic visual language for ecological invasion.