Ecology of Touch is an ongoing body of work exploring the profound relationship between the body, the earth, and the act of touch. Through simple gestures — harvesting tomatoes, gathering fallen leaves, recording the breath of rain, cradling seeds and small creatures — this work traces how tactile experience roots us back into the living world.

For years, as a mother, artist, and gardener, I tried to hand-make a life for my children — to show them the magic stitched into the earth, the sweetness hidden in wild fruit, the way a season announces itself through the fingertips. I wanted them to feel the quiet, durable joy of living in relationship with the land they stand upon.

In an era where touch is increasingly mediated, pixelated, or abstracted, Ecology of Touch insists on the intelligence of the hand: not only as a tool, but as a sacred threshold. To touch a mulberry and be stained by its pigment. To split open a jackfruit and carry its golden sweetness. To weave flowers into a bracelet. These acts are small, daily rituals of remembering — that we are porous beings, always shaping and shaped by the earth.

The photographs, field notes, and objects gathered here record not possessions, but relationships. They reflect an ecology built not from systems alone, but from reciprocity, gesture, and care — a shared life between hands and landscape.

This work stands within the lineage of ecofeminist and ecological art, land-based practices, ethnobotanical memory, and the ancient oral tradition where knowing was passed from hand to hand, season to season.
It honors a tactile intelligence that is at once ancestral and urgent: a reminder that what we touch, we become.