“What Was Left of the Sun / flowers VI,” Humana Obscura, no. 5, 2022.

Image description: Two dying sunflowers on a scanner bed with drying leaves. There is a glitch in the image that repeats only a part of one of the sunflower's dying petals. The background is a deep black, having a liquid quality. About the series: I’ve recently helped create a garden in the new place I live in and these images are a meditation on who has lived in this house before me as well as an investigation of human capacity for care of the earth during climate crisis. Finally, the series’ title uses the “/” commonly used in poetry to indicate a line break. This back slash suggests a breakage from the sun and flower, which is intended to mimic the tension and realities of the Anthropocene. These realities live within the space between that line break as well as in the elegiac tone of the series' title.