My body is a Garden

I've always loved exploring the connection between human and nature. The best part for me is stripping away everything artificial, playing with the natural form, elements of nature, and making all aspects work in unison. We are essentially nature. We grow just like flowers go, our emotions relate to the weather, there's something about a cold, crisp wind running through our hair that lets us feel liberated.

This picture is all about growing with the world. As time passes I think we seperate ourselves from the natural world more and more. This picture brings me, and hopefully my audience to a place where there is nothing else but feelings, and parts of nature making those feelings come to life. The rose growing out of the shoulder represents growth of something that didn't exist before- so not restoration, but simply stepping up a level in life. The flower petals scattering around more and more as they reach the bottom signify the nature of feeling free and limitless as we fall deeper into life. As with most of my work I do like to add elements of darkness, so the tilted head and stiff position suggests fragility, which raises questions as to how part of her seems to be growing but part is left behind.