Touch figurative I honor being wild

I honor being wild

there are no binaries—nature is interconnected

so that her skin can be read like a map

and it was not until my work as a climate activist that I began to understand what that absence had cost me

I find a way to care for and honor myself

Touch figurative I honor being wild2023, Collage with Linoleum Block and Screenprint Elements on Cotton Rag Paper 11. 25 x 15 inches Touch is one of my love languages, and through consent, communication, and care, it has become a meaningful way I connect with the people I love. While I didnt grow up with much nurturing touchand carried that absence into unhealthy patterns in my twentiesIve since unlearned those experiences and reclaimed touch as something abundant and healing. Through