Earthly Constellations
Cyanotype Series
Earthly Constellations is an ongoing cyanotype series exploring the intimate entanglement of body, land, memory, and loss. The images begin through physical contact with soil, snow, decaying plant matter, and the human body. Exposure to sunlight transforms these encounters into blue records—part image, part imprint.
The work is rooted in my relationship with the subtropical landscapes of Florida, which I consider my first family and formative teacher. I carry grief for a place increasingly altered by climate crisis, agricultural toxicity, and unchecked development. Rather than document that disappearance directly, the series asks how the body might remain in relationship with a place from which it has been displaced.
The circular forms evoke cellular and lunar structures, cycles of decomposition and renewal, and systems extending beyond immediate perception. Alchemical charts, medicinal tables, and cosmological diagrams sometimes enter the images, bringing the physical and spiritual, visible and veiled, into relation. Each work becomes an earthly constellation: a temporary arrangement of body, matter, and light—and a devotional record of belonging in a time of planetary disorientation.
Weaving Sky into Soil
The body rests face-down among mulch and roots, yielding its familiar boundaries to the processes of decomposition and renewal. Hair moves across the tangled ground like celestial drift, carrying the suggestion of sky into soil.
The image holds a threshold between grief and regeneration, above and below, body and biome. Rather than standing apart from the landscape, the figure submits to its living processes—and to the humility of being human within them.
Cyanotype on Canson watercolor paper
20 × 20 inches
Negative created in 2011; cyanotype printed in 2023
Cycles of Stars
A curled figure lies among decomposing plant matter while astrological and medicinal diagrams cross the body like a second anatomy. The charts draw on systems of correspondence among human life, plants, planets, and time.
Neither figure nor diagram remains fully legible. Body, earth, and cosmological order overlap, turning the image into a layered map—personal and planetary, temporary and ancient.
Cyanotype on Canson watercolor paper
20 × 20 inches
Negative created in 2011; cyanotype printed in 2023.
Temporarily Here
A body-shaped impression remains in the winter snow, arms extended and spine gently curved. The figure itself has disappeared, leaving behind a temporary record of weight, warmth, and presence.
Translated from photographic negative into cyanotype blue, the image holds the tension between invitation and disappearance. The snow becomes both surface and archive, preserving a quiet gesture that says: I was here.
Cyanotype on Canson watercolor paper
20 × 20 inches
Negative created in 2019; cyanotype printed in 2023.
Embodied Connections
A body rests among mulch and leaves, its limbs opening around the collapsed head of a sunflower. Human and vegetal forms become intertwined at the fertile threshold between decay and regeneration.
Soft flesh against earth, climbing leaves, and decomposing matter suggest a shared cycle of blooming, exhaustion, and return. The image proposes an erotic ecology in which the body is not separate from the living world, and decay becomes a generative offering.
Cyanotype on Canson watercolor paper
20 × 20 inches
Negative created in 2011; cyanotype printed in 2023.
Pillars of Community
Nestled among the upright forms of a banana grove, the body becomes both mother and soil, an unseen root system sustaining the abundance around it. Figure and plant stand together as pillars of a shared ecology, offering care, shelter, and nourishment.
The regenerative growth and clustered fruit of the banana plants evoke a matriarchal model of community. The image honors the often-invisible labor that sustains familial, cultural, and ecological life, reimagining motherhood not as isolation, but as rooted communal power.
Cyanotype on Canson watercolor paper
20 × 20 inches
Negative created in 2011; cyanotype printed in 2023.
Constellations of Imogen
A girl lies within a field of wildflowers, her head tilted upward and her body absorbed into the surrounding growth. The image holds a moment of witnessing: a daughter not simply observing the natural world, but appearing held within it.
Across the circular field, flowers gather like stars around her figure. The work considers inheritance, wonder, and the intimacy of seeing one’s child mirrored by the living earth—a constellation of breath, light, and life.
Cyanotype on Canson watercolor paper
20 × 20 inches
Negative and cyanotype created in 2023.