Taylor Casalena

Taylor is an interdisciplinary artist, naturalist and designer exploring the sensory, ecological, and emotional dimensions of place.

A digital illustration of a large tree with green foliage, surrounded by various smaller plants and flowers, with a full moon in the night sky and numerous colorful butterflies flying around.

Moonlight Moth Forest

Moonlight Moth Forest is an micro nocturnal landscape project exploring the hidden ecology of moths, darkness, and the urban night.

Part habitat design, part atmospheric worldbuilding, the project imagines micro forests designed for moonlight pollinators.

Moonlight Moth Forest invites people to experience the night as a living ecosystem rather than an absence of activity.

Commended Entry, Ecological Change, Climate Creatives Challenge. Awarded by The Environmental Design Studio, Natural England and WWF · Jan 2023

A digital illustration of a floating island with various green trees and plants, illuminated by a large full moon in the dark night sky with stars, titled 'Moonlight Moth Forest'.

An infographic titled 'Process' with three columns labeled 'mood,' 'research,' and 'development.' The first row shows a moss-dominated surface, a leaf insect, and a layered diagram of a forest. The second row features a moth, a caterpillar, and trees

A multicolored chart titled "Moonlight Moments" showing flowers and seeds associated with different seasons, including pussy willow buds, fringe tree flowers, lilac flowers, oak seeds, persimmon fruits, chickweed flowers, arrowwood flowers, buttonbus

A collection of moths and their scientific names displayed on a dark background, labeled 'Moth Moments'.

Diagram of a layered tree with lists of botanical species for canopy, tree, subtree, and shrub layers, showing various types of trees and shrubs used in landscaping or ecology.

Diagram of a green plant with various species of trees and plants labeled, including names of different types of oak, cherry, maple, and other trees. The diagram includes a color-coded key with dots representing each plant species and their scientifi

rewildingxp

rewildingxp is a speculative restoration project exploring what happens when digital landscapes are treated as ecological ones.

Beginning with one of the most recognizable desktop images in history, the work reimagines the famous Windows XP hillside as a living habitat shaped by biodiversity, succession, climate, and time.

Through native plants, sound, atmosphere, and ecological storytelling, the project asks what it means to restore not only ecosystems, but our collective environmental imagination.

Desert landscape with a tall Joshua tree, various cacti, bushes, and butterflies.

welcoming wildlife in the mojave

In the high desert where creosote meets the starry night sky, we co-developed a guide to welcome wildlife. Mapping species of conservation concern and shaping native habitat design for the Mojave blue butterfly, desert tortoise, and tricolored blackbird.

In collaboration with For Every Star, A Tree.

birdbathfm

gentle, chirping, lo-fi resurrection

birdsongs for background healing, nervous system rewilding, and soft inner reprogramming.

take a dip.