‘once upon a time, and still, we are one’
inkjet on washi

this piece is about a southern gulf island, during the season of spring.
this piece is about relationships that don’t use verbal language.
this piece is about slowing down, and sensing with fingertips.
this piece is about fuzziness, prickliness, stinging, and softness.
this piece is about being in a body among many species of bodies.
this piece is just beginning...

these images were in my archives starting from the spring of 2019. i had made them without an agenda or purpose. i was documenting encounters that were meaningful to me, without really noticing my continued return to this action. as i started exploring the theme of ‘re:location’ this series gathered together and i began to contemplate why i was drawn to repeat this process, of reaching out to touch petals, stems, bark, needles and fronds. i realized that when i moved into a tactile relationship with burdock, honeysuckle, or horsetail, my senses would experience an opening and an adjustment. this simple act of touching, and simultaneously being touched, yielded great shifts in my perception of the living world, as well as my connection to it.  
these photographs remain as visual documents of this process, as well as reminders of the reverence i feel when in the presence of a blossoming elderberry, or the western red cedar. 

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re:location, salt spring island