The central idea behind my work is about feeling grief for the Earth, especially when it feels like things
are dying before they even get the chance to live. I want to explore the sadness and helplessness that
comes with watching nature fall apart, and challenge the idea that everything will just fix itself. Through
the image of a cocoon that never opens, I’m asking what it means when change or growth is stopped. I
hope people feel a kind of quiet sadness when they see it, and maybe think about what we’re losing. For
me, the most powerful part of Gaia Grief is how it mixes love for the planet with pain and guilt.
This is meant to be approached slowly. The person who is viewing it, is invited to stand still, observe,
and feel. There is no butterfly. There is no emergence. Just the echo of what could have been.