As a child, my grandmother would give me a disposable film camera and tell me to go take photos. I would run around the neighborhood capturing birds of paradise, hibiscus, and other tropical flora on the swampy lands that raised me, and anything I found beautiful. Film was very much my first creative medium, and not much has changed since.

After my grandmother’s passing as a teenager, I inherited her film cameras. Creative art with them became a big part of my grieving process. I fell madly in love with witnessing the beauty, miracles, and cycles of life through film and noticed how it moved life through my system as all art does. It became the lens through which I processed and felt the transformational cycles of living as a sensitive woman here to radically transform and embody my divine nature, creative power, and oracular gifts and lead others through this feminine and creative liberation process.

Along with working with fashion and jewelry designers, bands, and musicians in NYC in my early 20s, I spent many years traveling around the world, photographing nature through her cycles of decay and bloom, seeing these expressions of creation mirrored in myself and my subjects. Seeing with my outer vision attuned my inner vision as I communed with the natural world, which was an unexpected training and initiation that led me to a fuller expression of my soul's purpose.

When I was 25, I got into a car accident with a drunk driver and obtained multiple injuries, one of which was a broken bone in my shoulder. I was in Cambodia at the time, and there was very little healing support available from doctors or even English-speaking humans. As needles and different native tongues were coming at me left and right, I found out the extent of my injuries through a game of multi-language telephone. One of my injuries was said to take 6-12 months to heal, and I would potentially need surgery when I got back home to the States. A week later, depressed, suffering in pain, and processing the trauma of my experience, I was in Aotearoa (New Zealand) for the first time. It was here that Spirit led me to completely surrender myself to nature and begin the practice of self-portraiture with the land there. I couldn't lift my arm due to my shoulder injury, but in this raw, vulnerable, and physically and emotionally beaten down state, I took photos of myself with the sea and the stone beings that guided me. Within a few days of this devotional practice of presence, empowerment, and self-witnessing, all physical pain vanished, and I had full mobility in my arm. Shocked and in awe, this is when I awakened to the awareness that the most powerful forms of healing are nature, presence, and embodied creative expression. From then, my practice with clients evolved, and I began bringing more and more women to sacred places in nature to experience the healing of being witnessed fully, being held by the Earth, and letting the fullness of who they emerge through any layers of pain, shame, or fear that may hide their light.

I continue to travel around the world shooting 35 mm, 120 mm, and polaroid film art for designers, brands, bands, artists, healers, mystics, muses, mothers, online and print publications, retreats, and also for myself as an avenue of deep healing, freedom, and empowered embodiment, intimately witnessing myself and others through this lens of raw and primal presence.

 What I love about analog photography as a medium is the grounded presence, intention, trust, surrender to the mystery, and patience it asks of you. There is no instant gratification or immediate results. It isn’t a medium of expression that can be rushed or even perfected, which is very different from our modern age of social media, Instagram photographers, iPhones, and apps that distort your appearance. With film, we are not focused on the outcome but on the experience of being present in co-creation with nature and the nature we are. When working with film, we surrender to a more natural beauty and essence of creation that dances as a flame through the heart and belly. It is a medium that beautifully captures energy that cannot be so easily seen with the naked eye alone, which is why it has always resonated with me as someone who naturally sees beyond the veil. Shooting with film is like seeing the world through multi-dimensional bee lenses! The creativity is limitless, the colors are healing, and the spirit of life is vibrant and fertile.

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