Animisms is a series of diptychs with two distinct portraits of plants. The first is how I see the plant in that moment, and in the second I relinquish control, allowing the plants to provide a new portrait of themselves through movement, colors, and mystery.
This series is a response to questioning how I could use my photography to promote more holistic ways of connecting to and living with the non-human living world around us. Could I challenge the history of landscape and nature photography to create a process in which I collaborated with my living subjects? How could I give as much dignity to urban plant life as traditional landscape photography has given wild landscapes removed from human manipulation? This project is an attempt to produce a feeling of magic; to provoke questions into the spirit of plants, their intangible essences, and a recognition that there is so much we don't know, a challenge to human exceptionalism.