May Queen
Thoughts and images forming around my girlhood spent in woods and fields as a free-ranging semi-feral creature, who only returned home to eat, sleep, read, draw, and drink from the garden hose. You'd think I had an unstable home life, but you'd be wrong. My family offered me a safe, secure home base from which I learned I could fly and always return. I was a wild, untamed thing who needed freedom, even from the earliest years, but then, of course, the world got a hold of me and I became civilized. I forgot about that version of me after being domesticated all these years. But suddenly I am remembering her and reclaiming a bit of her innate wisdom and sovereignty at last. Using my original photography layered with found photos, textures from my drawings and paintings and collage elements to tell ancient tales and unlearn enough to be as wise as I once was.
May Queen
Thoughts and images forming around my girlhood spent in woods and fields as a free-ranging semi-feral creature, who only returned home to eat, sleep, read, draw, and drink from the garden hose. You'd think I had an unstable home life, but you'd be wrong. My family offered me a safe, secure home base from which I learned I could fly and always return. I was a wild, untamed thing who needed freedom, even from the earliest years, but then, of course, the world got a hold of me and I became civilized. I forgot about that version of me after being domesticated all these years. But suddenly I am remembering her and reclaiming a bit of her innate wisdom and sovereignty at last. Using my original photography layered with found photos, textures from my drawings and paintings and collage elements to tell ancient tales and unlearn enough to be as wise as I once was.