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The Nature Invocation, 2023
“Go into nature. Sit, or kneel.
Touch the earth with both hands and repeat:
Let all that is harmful sink into the ground.
Let all that is harmful turn into good.
Repeat as many times as you feel you need.
When you’re done, stand. Feel gratitude. Wash your hands.”
“Go into nature. Sit, or kneel.
Touch the earth with both hands and repeat:
Let all that is harmful sink into the ground.
Let all that is harmful turn into good.
Repeat as many times as you feel you need.
When you’re done, stand. Feel gratitude. Wash your hands.”
A photographic series presenting installations assembled from elements gathered from the wild. Natural objects such as shells, stones, wood, and fossil merge into compositions that evoke relics charged with ritual significance. Central to this inquiry is a reimagining of nature. Collecting and arranging natural materials becomes a meditative practice, an exercise in deciphering the environment’s subtle, inherent language. In challenging established notions of separation between humanity and the natural world, the installations offer a vision of profound, reciprocal entanglement with a realm that transcends human boundaries. This work proposes a ritual of devotion. A cultic celebration of Gaia, the mythological embodiment of Mother Earth. Here, the natural environment is not only a repository of ancestral knowledge, but also a living, poetic terrain with which we, as homo sapiens, remain infinitely connected despite posthumanist discourses that often distance us from the flora and fauna. In this alternative mode of engagement, silence and reverence evoke a timeless communion with a world that is both ancient and continuously renewing.
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