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 Seedling Series
This body of work reflects my interest in the interrelationship and communion between humanity and nature. I'm fascinated with the idea that seeds encapsulate dormant energy and the potential for vibrant, visceral, life force. In opposition to the seedling's impetus for growth there also exists an entropic, destructive energy. Is the impetus for death also contained within the seed? Or, is this energy from without? Each entity, human and plant, somehow innately contains or is susceptible to these opposing forces. I'm in love with observing the partnership of the duality; intrigued with the questions and satisfied with not finding answers. The play and interaction between the opposing forces are multilayered and complex, an adventure evidenced in all earthy manifestations. I am mesmerized with the whirling dance of potential energy and realized relationships between humanity and nature.
The imagery in this work combines the intimate internal anatomy of the human body with that of seedpods, new growth and sprig structures. I view the human body itself as a seed pod where, like the seed, there is potential energy harbored within. This inherent potentiality sets the stage for a vast array of possibilities. The human body is a corporeal vehicle through which the human spirit can be expressed and with which we engage with the world. The use of hybrid human/plant forms is not new, imagery and ideation on this topic has been found in many different cultures and times, from Hittite and Babylonian symbolism, Mayan rituals, Vesalius's book De humani corporis fabrica, the writings of Goethe to the DC Comic super heroine the Black Orchid. The common theme running through the use of hybrid human/plant symbolism is the investigation of our connections to nature and the meanings that can be derived from those connections. My work continues this investigation with the imagery acting as poems for the complex alliance we share with nature; one that is mutual and symbiotic, loving yet entropic.
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