What is at stake when we perceive our bodies as being distinctly separate from the natural world? What must we remember about connection, embodiment, and physicality as we move through a world that profits off the exploitation of our bodies and the earth?
When we silence the wisdom of our bodies and the natural world we sacrifice the tools most fundamental to our awakening as human beings– the body and its connection to the land. We extract and exploit, only to find that out of this disconnection arises immense bodily and environmental illness.
This series of portraits recontextualizes the body by situating the nude form in different natural environments, moving away from a cultural understanding of nudity that sexualizes and objectifies the body towards an intuitive understanding of the body and its inextricable connection to the land. As the nude form is recontextualized within a natural landscape, one is encouraged to rejoice in their most embodied form, to interact with the living and breathing organisms all around them. In doing so one reunites with the womb– the landscape we have been born into yet simultaneously cast from.
Collaboration with subjects of all ages, body types and backgrounds was integral to the creation of this work, allowing for an exploration of the body and identity. By placing a range of subjects in natural settings I consider the ways in which all bodies are interwoven with the land, illuminating each individual's capacity to realize their experience of being one of, and with, the natural world.
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