Environmental Memento Mori

The alarming decrease of insects, and birds, inspired my Environmental Memento Mori. Inspired by Victorian Memento Mori, photos that posed deceased beloved family, I too pose subjects in an imagined environment. With each photo, I’m honoring and memorializing insects and small animals whose troubling decline makes their recognition important and poignant.

The images are produced by layering my subject, botanical materials, and dyes on multiple sheets of glass separated by blocks. The assemblage is photographed as one image through the glass layers simultaneously creating a fantasy environment that once captured allows the subject to live on forever.