Plant Scream
Plant Scream marks the importance of portraiture and expression in my work. I am focused on portraiture right now for a very simple reason: I want to create characters and tell stories. I want to provide a little window into different worlds, worlds where ideas and issues look different than how they look in this world. I want to create worlds where there is no need to convince anyone that bodies and the planet are interconnected because in these worlds, plants grow on skin. Right now, my characters are all entirely embedded in nature. They feel the Earth with all of their senses. They relate to the Earth in different ways than how we relate (or fail to relate) now.
My characters feel the Earth on their tongues. Their scalps grow sprouts, their ears are full of grasses. The destruction of flora is unquestionable to them. To destroy nature is to destroy their own bodies.
Graphite on paper
8x10”
