The Future Is Collective, 2024
This work is contemplative about the current environmental state of our time, the distress our Earth is undergoing due to the outweighing, and insurmountable extraction, and how Indigenous practices are, and can be, prevalent in the fight against climate change as a sustainable approach.
It foregrounds a woman figure as a keeper and bearer of life, against a body of water that is indicative of a source of life, embodying fortitude and fluidity within an open space, unrestrictive.
In the background, traces of extractivism, can be found through the electrical lines and vehicles powered by oil that are present in the image, moving across the roads, emblematic of our human forward values.
Finding the balance in life is underpinning.
An expressive, composite image that attempts to convey how caring for our environment, the way we care for our bodies, with protection, preservation, and good health in mind, can benefit the planet and human conditions.
Showing the parallels between the body as a vessel of life and the planet as the same, the only difference being in form.
Both of which are connected.
Speculative-imaginative photographic composite that considers rising sea levels, how the melting ice caps in Greenland affect the Bay Area, among other critical spaces (the Marshall Islands for example), and wonderment of how humans will adapt/respond.