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In this body of work, I focus on creating opportunities for experiencing/being in/with the more than human world. I am deeply curious about our world, its sustaining complexities, and its mysteries. I am curious about a future of hybridity, —a post humanist model for transformation and a means of envisioning a reality beyond anthropocentric systems.
I collaborate with the environment to explore our place within it. I work at the permeable boundaries between humans and the natural world, merging with our kinship with plants, microbes, and the unseen. I aim to illustrate a story of hybridity—not as a fable, folktale, or factual account, but as a hybrid narrative that transcends false dichotomies and embraces a nonlinear approach.
This work was developed while I was an artist in residence in northern Italy, at the Woodman Foundation Residency. The landscape there is ancient and recognizable as part of human history, the terraces of olive groves reperesented in paintings for centuries. I worked in the olive groves, and considered stories and myth of humans and trees.
Posthumanism—a reimagining of humanity’s place in the world, and a recognition of the permeable boundaries between species, the potency of symbiosis, and the vibrancy of all life forms—is a philosophy to live by. Symbiosis is a profoundly intimate relationship, responsible for the success of life on this planet, including our own. As a member of this planet, I am a symbiote: receptive and porous, both physiologically and mentally.
