New Works
The Attunement Series considers the plant as a surrogate figure through which ideas of embodiment, presence, vulnerability, and identity are explored. Cropped images of house plants are layered with direct prints of my hand and fingers, creating spaces where human and botanical forms overlap, obscure, and inhabit one another.
The direct prints of my hands and fingers serve as traces of the body, intimate markers of human presence embedded within the plant forms. Through the physical act of pressing my hands and fingers onto the surface, these marks suggest touch, memory, and identity while also becoming abstract patterns that complicate the distinction between human and nonhuman bodies.
Informed by ideas of plant perception and communication explored in Peter Tompkins’s The Secret Life of Plants, the series considers plants as living, responsive bodies with forms of presence and interiority beyond what is immediately visible. The works explore the space between human and nonhuman life and the ways presence can emerge, recede, fragment, and transform.
Through the tension between figure and ground, the visible and concealed, and human and botanical forms, Attunement considers what becomes possible when the boundaries between bodies begin to dissolve.