i’ve been thinking about why i am so drawn to the interspecies imagery that winds through so much of my work. i think there’s something there about trying to understand the self through the mirror of nature, through our relationships to animals. they kind of embody my longing to bridge my alienation from nature as a lifelong city dweller and shut-in (lol). in exploring what being in right relationship to nature looks like, i want to reforge a closeness to self and body, the body being analogous to nature in being all around us, crucial, elemental, yet neglected or intellectualized and distanced.