Finally tonight, we travel into the woods of New England.

Michelle San Miguel, a Rhode Island PBS weekly, introduces us to an artist who was once uprooted from her homeland

and has spent decades transforming works of nature into works of art.

This story is part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

This is where the glaciers culture series, Canvas.

This is where the glaciers ended 10,000 years ago and dropped a lot of stone and rubble and boulders.

So, of course, you'll see a lot of stone walls.

Some of these lots around here were used for wood by the colonials.

So it's kind of a scrubby forest landscape, but it holds all kinds of histories here.

Artist Anna Flores is fascinated by the stories the land holds.

It's one of the reasons she likes to start her days by going for a walk in the forest next to her home in Charlestown.

This stretch of southern Rhode Island has a complicated history.

It's the land of the Narragansets and they're still very present.

It's also a place that's had a history that is very connected to the Caribbean

because Rhode Island was part of the slave trade.

For Flores, the land isn't simply a muse.

It's also an extension of her studio.

She's searching for materials she can incorporate It's also an extension of her studio.

She's searching for materials she can incorporate into her artwork.

I do a lot of branches.

A lot of wood comes in because all kinds of forms of wood, stones,

man-made objects that get left behind and rusted.

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