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Re-Wild (2021 - 2024)

 

There is a song by musical artist Heather Nova called “Re-wild Me”. She wrote this to express her need to reconnect to nature and this need completely resonates in me. Throughout my life, I have not felt connected to contemporary times or places but it is in the forest, in nature, where I find this connection. However, in recent years, between my move to another county as well as my aging, the desire to find roots and become more grounded have grown in me but because of how our world has become uglier, more aggressive and less connected with humanity, the need to escape from the world also lingers. No matter what, it is always in the forest, where I engage with nature that the desire to become part of it all becomes stronger.

 

Re-Wild is a culmination of two series (BirdWoman and Nature) created between 2021 and 2024 as we emerged from the COVID epidemic, when contemporary society made even less sense to me and when an uncertainty of major aspects of my future became more prominent. I have alternated photographing these images between the use of a Holga film camera and a digital SLR depending on the level of difficulty of work as most of these images were made alone without assistance. They have also been taken both in the forest as well as in my studio when I was unwell having physical difficulties. The commonality with all of these images, however, is the desire to connect, to become one with natural forces.

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