As it did for most everyone, the pandemic changed me. It forced me to truly consider what connection meant to me; how to make it meaningful, how to sustain it within the isolation, and how to uncover it in things/places I might not normally have considered looking.
In the spring of 2020 time slowed. Without my usual distractions, I found myself spending hours on the ground photographing and observing wildflowers. The smallest of things in the woods fascinated me. Being in nature had always nourished me. In those days it became my refuge and container.
While working on this project I felt a new found connection to my sister. We had shared our passion for art and photography together. We had only just begun our joint exploration with models and dancers when she died in 2010. The pandemic felt seismic in my life, and to not be able to share that experience with her brought a new sense of loss. In the process of making these pairings, I felt her beside me; her presence and her love.
These pairs are about gesture, simplicity of form, color and relationships. The human form echoes nature’s organic forms, and the wildflowers dance when paired with their graceful partners. They are engaged in their own quiet conversations. Together and apart. Apart and back together. It’s my sister and I. It’s me and my sister. It’s where I’d hoped and imagined we might be connecting today.
Elegance
Let it be a Dance
Balletic
Whirling
Rhythmical
Stillness
Dynamic Harmony
