Interspecies Intimacies is a collaboration with the human and the non-human, the living and the dead.
These creatures model the holobiont—a body built from the assemblages of species working together to form the ecological unit—the orchid, the wasp, the mycorrhiza and now the human.
This community of bodies built from the earth are translations from the two-dimensional sectional botanical illustrations of the self-described “recluse” and amateur botanist Philip Branwhite. This process of making draws from the politics of "intimacy without proximity" a term by Jacob Metcalf.
Forming a counterarchive—made by the hand—this community is a way to think across time and relations between the human and non-human—a simultaneous past, present and speculative future. I work to complicate and challenge the colonial archive with mimetic and haptic forms of knowledge production.