Artist Statement — Body of Earth
Body of Earth explores the intimate and sacred relationship between the human form and the natural world ; a connection that is too often forgotten in an age of rapid technological growth. As our lives become increasingly digital & synthetic, we risk drifting away from the very ground that sustains us. This series is a reminder to return, to feel soil beneath our feet, wind against our skin, and the quiet rhythm of the planet that mirrors our own self.
At its core, Body of Earth honours women.
The protectors, nurturers, and voices who remind us that care for the Earth is care for ourselves. Their resistance and reverence embody a balance our world desperately needs: one of empathy, renewal, and rootedness.
Through these images, I aim to blur the boundary between body and landscape — revealing that neither exists in isolation, and that healing the Earth begins with remembering we are part of it.
Her gaze carries the weight of rain before it falls. The land finds its reflection in her
She yields to the wind, not in surrender, but in knowing. Her stillness shaped by what moves through her. The body remembers what it is to move without boundary.
Where cliff meets sky, she steps among stones; bleached, pale as bone.
Her presence both solitary and infinite. The earth becomes both subject and witness, a feminine force that holds and renews.
The rocks cradle her like an ancient memory. She folds inward, returning to the earth’s interior silence. Creation hums beneath her skin. Slow, seismic, alive.
Time gathers around her body, the sea takes what earth loves. When the earth exhales, she will disappear into its rhythm.
Flesh meets stone; shielding her soft skin against unyielding.
Red heather stains the cliffside. Iron and bloom, pulse and soil. Her feet press into the ground, and it answers back: I am you. The earth bleeds not in pain, but in creation.
The horses move through grassland like spirits of the soil. Muscle and breath shaped from the same clay as her. She stands among them, neither wild nor tamed, both belonging to the earth’s pulse. With this image I wanted to express what it means to be human on this planet. We share the land with animals that rise from the same source. We are all simply creatures born of one mother, Earth.
To touch the ground is to return to origin. She fades into the land that remembers her shape.