Chasing Magic
Human knowledge of the land is equally as endangered as the land itself.
How do we (humans) regain lost knowledge? How do we re-skill, pass stories and make heirloom family? Can these processes help our cultures enter again into a reciprocal relationship with nature? Chasing Magic is an installation and the result of a journey to heal and find magic in one’s life. This journey began with considering how to do more than sustain ourselves on this planet and choosing to regenerate our knowledge of land and ways to live lightly upon the planet.
The installation is comprised of field notes, photographs, and objects collected along a personal journey of surrender, learning, healing and growth. From traveling and farming throughout the Americas, I have been in reflection of the relationships humans have to the natural world. Along my path I observed that magic seems to prevail most among people who live in close proximity to nature. These are people who are caretakers of the place in which they live, cultivating and alchemizing with the elements that surround them. As a witness and participant in moments of magic, I have collected objects that not only represent a memory of a place, an action, or a person, but are also tools of ritual. Rituals that involve clearing energy, creating protection, grounding a person, manifesting intentions, opening and healing the heart, showing gratitude, and forms of divination.
Plant Portraits is a group of photographs that highlights our economic, medicinal, and spiritual relationships to plants and also includes images to represent the magic of the unknown. A portrait of Mayna Parvifolium, an unclassified fruit from the Southern Amazon of Peru, reveals that there remains much to discover on this planet and still time to save what is not yet lost.
A deep part of healing and regenerating is in our connection to each other, in our relationships, in our communities and in our families. In reflecting this, I display my personal notes, photographs, letters and writings that have been generated throughout the last two years. This archive embodies the importance of the roles we fill: as mother, wife, friend, teacher, student, and steward of heart and land in the Anthropocene. These are artifacts of time, of place, of thoughts, of that have become biographical, and familial archive.
How do we (humans) regain lost knowledge? How do we re-skill, pass stories and make heirloom family? Can these processes help our cultures enter again into a reciprocal relationship with nature? Chasing Magic is an installation and the result of a journey to heal and find magic in one’s life. This journey began with considering how to do more than sustain ourselves on this planet and choosing to regenerate our knowledge of land and ways to live lightly upon the planet.
The installation is comprised of field notes, photographs, and objects collected along a personal journey of surrender, learning, healing and growth. From traveling and farming throughout the Americas, I have been in reflection of the relationships humans have to the natural world. Along my path I observed that magic seems to prevail most among people who live in close proximity to nature. These are people who are caretakers of the place in which they live, cultivating and alchemizing with the elements that surround them. As a witness and participant in moments of magic, I have collected objects that not only represent a memory of a place, an action, or a person, but are also tools of ritual. Rituals that involve clearing energy, creating protection, grounding a person, manifesting intentions, opening and healing the heart, showing gratitude, and forms of divination.
Plant Portraits is a group of photographs that highlights our economic, medicinal, and spiritual relationships to plants and also includes images to represent the magic of the unknown. A portrait of Mayna Parvifolium, an unclassified fruit from the Southern Amazon of Peru, reveals that there remains much to discover on this planet and still time to save what is not yet lost.
A deep part of healing and regenerating is in our connection to each other, in our relationships, in our communities and in our families. In reflecting this, I display my personal notes, photographs, letters and writings that have been generated throughout the last two years. This archive embodies the importance of the roles we fill: as mother, wife, friend, teacher, student, and steward of heart and land in the Anthropocene. These are artifacts of time, of place, of thoughts, of that have become biographical, and familial archive.
Hands at Work
A collection of photos documenting the
Plant Portraits
A collection of photographs produced through ritualistic walks, plant interactions and human stories.
Unseen Field Culture: Tomato Field
Unseen Field Culture is a series that explores our food systems. This is an installation about the struggles small organic farmers face in South FL against large industrilized agriculture sytems that use detrimental practices.
Unseen Field Culture: The Green Bean
An installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami about the nation's largest green bean production in South Florida.
Learning to Love in the Anthropocene
Learning to Love in the Anthropocene is a subscription service, in which instructions are sent to subscribers weekly to help reimagine the human relationship to Nature.
Moon & Stars Farm
A Regenerative Land Lab
Regenerative Argiculture:
Field Guide to Regenerative Culture
A Proposed Guide to Regenerative Culture
Water Memory
An ongoing exploration of our water, the way it is used, the way it flows and the memories it holds.
Sustainable Land Lab Miami
Midtown 34th Street Project: A vacant lot turned into a sustinable land lab in Midtown Miami.
Public Art: Cosmic Forces
Public Installations
Biophilia: Connecting to Nautre
A collection of photograph exploring the journey to re-connect to Nature.
Art of Culture Evolution: An Organization
Art of Cultural Evolution is an environmental and arts non-profit developed and founded to address climate change.
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