Nature and Body 2022
The Earth and the Human Body are connected. We see this connection through our similarities, the veins of leaves like the veins of our hands, the texture of bark like the texture of our skin, and so on.
This project was built on the observations I made about my body and the nature surrounding me. I photographed using the 4x5 large format black and white film camera to capture the similarity a tree has to a human and vis versa.
I chose a tree not only for its immense amount of similarities to the human body, but also my own personal connection to trees from a young age.
The end result of the project was double exposing the film to have the body and the tree together on one image and then collaging the images together to make one whole cohesive body--the tree and human.
East Building Gallery