"The Forest Can Recognize Her Footsteps" is a multimedia photo based piece that blurs the line between installation art and framed photography. The piece explores idea of nature as mother and the deep connection I feel to nature as a woman. Each image in the work was created during time spent with an important female figure in my life. The images were then printed on canvas and installed on slabs of local tulip poplar, held with copper wiring. The images were shot on expired color film gifted to me by my great godmother, and this gives the piece a surreal and dreamlike quality. The wood grain continues through each slab, as they are displayed in the order the slabs were cut from the larger piece of wood, referencing the continuity of memory and the passage of time.
