Earthly Constellation
Cyanotype Series
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Earthly Constellations is an ongoing body of work exploring the intimate entanglement between body, land, and loss. Created using cyanotype—a light-sensitive process activated by the sun—these circular images emerge from moments of physical contact with soil, snow, decaying plant matter, and the elements. The prints are composed through a slow ritual of laying down, layering, and imprinting—an act of reverence as much as one of image-making.
These works are rooted in a lifelong relationship to place, particularly the subtropical landscapes of Florida, which I consider my first family and formative teacher. I carry grief for the loss of that place—displaced by climate crisis, agricultural toxicity, and unchecked development—and the ache of that rupture lives in this series. There is a longing in the images: for repair, for return, for a language to speak to land as kin.
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The circular format references cycles of time, lunar and cellular structures, sacred geometry, and the infinite. Some pieces incorporate overlays of alchemical charts, medicinal tables, and esoteric systems—gestures toward cosmology and healing, mapping the intersection between the physical and the spiritual, the visible and the veiled.
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This work is a devotional practice. Each image is a constellation formed of earth and body, a record of fleeting contact, and a meditation on what it means to belong to a place in a time of planetary disorientation.
Weaving Sky into Soil
A gesture of humility and reconnection, this work marks a quiet submission to being human. The body rests face-down in mulch and roots, suggesting a return to origin, a merging with decomposition and renewal. The upward swirl of hair against the tangled earth echoes celestial drift—sky seeded into soil, or soil dreaming sky.
This image is a threshold: between grief and regeneration, above and below, body and biome.
Cycles of Stars
A meditation on the body as a celestial map and the earth as archive. This image overlays a figure with cosmological diagrams, entwined with decaying plant matter and soil. Created through a slow ritual of contact printing, it holds the tension between the temporal and the eternal, the personal and the planetary.
Temporarily Here
A brief bodyprint in winter—arms open, spine curled into snow. The form is both invitation and disappearance, an ephemeral mark of being.
Made through direct contact with snow and later rendered in cyanotype blue, this image becomes a meditation on impermanence, tenderness, and the quiet gestures that say: I was here.
Embodied Connections
A gesture of surrender and sensual entanglement—body nested in mulch, limbs parted around a collapsed sunflower head. This piece evokes the fertile threshold between rot and regeneration, where the human form is not separate from the vegetative, but interwoven with it.
The leaves crawling upward, the compost beneath, the soft flesh against the earth: together, they suggest a cycle of blooming, exhaustion, and return. It’s an image of erotic ecology, where decay is not an end but a generative offering.
Pillars of Community
A meditation on the body as fertile ground, this image positions the figure as both mother and soil—an unseen root system nurturing the visible abundance of a tropical grove. Nestled among the banana trunks, the form becomes a quiet, steady presence: a pillar among pillars, offering care, shelter, and nourishment.
Banana plants, known for their generosity and rapid regeneration, mirror the ethos of matriarchal community—producing fruit in clusters, standing close, leaning into each other for support. This work honors the invisible labor of nurturing ecosystems—familial, cultural, ecological—and reimagines motherhood not as isolation but as rooted communal power.
Constellations of Imogen
A portrait of a girl dissolving into wildflowers, her body arched in wonder, her presence both luminous and fleeting. This piece holds the moment of witnessing—a daughter in communion with the natural world, not merely observing its beauty, but embodying it.
Here, the field becomes sky, petals become stars, and she becomes a constellation of breath, light, and life. It is a meditation on inheritance, awe, and the quiet miracle of seeing your child held—and mirrored—by the earth itself.