My connection to nature began at the earliest age I can remember. Never feeling connected to the material world or contemporary times, the woods and the forest felt home to me with its magic and splendor in the spirits that live within them. In the last 15 years, as the material world becomes colder and more aggressive, the desire to flee and stay escape in the natural world grows even stronger. However, as I have had major changes in my life, as well as aging, there is also the desire to root myself and become grounded, but this feeling never lasts and I once again desire to flee.

 

While these thoughts have entered my photographic work throughout my artistic career, it has truly become the common thread between these multiple series of self-portraits that I began in 2021 and compiled together in 2024; when contemporary society made even less sense to me and when an uncertainty of my future became more prominent.