Earth Mama I

This series of works is about healing our collective relationship to nature, particularly in an era where a global culture of mass extraction is causing an annihilation of wildlife, plants, birds and insects. I created these works to represent the transformational power of tuning into nature’s wisdom.

After a life crisis in late 2018, I put my focus into my relationship to plants, to surround myself with them so that I could wake up to their life-giving force. It was my way of healing my relationship to the natural world. I grew up in a cement city, with dead structures all around me, cement and buildings, hardly green areas. Meanwhile, wealthy folks lived in the greenest and most beautiful mountains just a few minutes away. People of color and migrant families like mine were forced into hoods, next to freeways that spewed emissions and made us sick. I didn’t...