27th october 2022

Dear Ayline,

The cycle of life is everywhere, it is nature. I often struggle with the concept of time and I find that there is an impossible struggle inside myself to hold onto life's beautiful moments longer than I should. To pause and be. I became obsessed with preservation and trying to desperately treasure everything I found in nature. Death is many things but when looking at flowers I found that the sublime could be found in this place, just after life and before the flower turns to dust. When I create my installations I try to create spaces that slow time down. Places to stop, heal and observe. In the cycle I love exploring the place between life and death.

The place you mentioned in Costa Rica, Uvita, sounds bursting with life, a place where the ocean meets the land, is a place where life should be abundant. I am in love with this earth and those places that are bursting with life. I am often overwhelmed in nature and I am immediately transported into the spiritual because my senses are on overdrive. A season in the UK has come to mind, Spring. Every year I am overwhelmed by the speed of life and its abundance.

The physical connection that you have to nature feels similar to what I try to capture within my installations. The idea of being cocooned in nature is what led me to exploring the womb as a vessel. Your images of skin touching water reminds me of this first connection we have to nature as human beings.

How would you describe our physical human connection to the natural world?

Rebecca