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I use botany as a way of understanding the questions that surround life and death.
What comes before and what comes after are deep questions that have moved the very basis of my work. I use my practice as a meditation to understand these questions. It is here, where Iām able explore the unknown; stepping closer to that great perhaps.
Within these body of works, the cycle of plant life is explored through suspending each phase of botanical matter. Each piece contains several lockets, each locket holding a temporary burst of plant life. Consisting of every stage of their life cycle, from sprout to seed, each locket explores the ideas of separate moments strung together to create an unfolding sequence of life to rebirth. This series of lockets are all worn tightly around the neck, enclosing on themselves as full circles. I use this placement on the body, as a way of presenting the delicate interconnectedness of human and plant life alike.