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The spirit of southern France felt very feminine to me. Creating this series offered a chance to explore that notion more. A number of the reference photos were taken by Émile Joachim Constant Puyo in the late 1800s/early 1900s, a French photographer credited with championing the practice of photography as an artistic medium. Also included is a reference to a portrait of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and a female farmer who I am connected to. Given what I was going through during the time of my French residency, I was hyper-focused on the unique traits of womanhood and my goal for this series was to highlight women as figures of not just inherent beauty, but of great strength and deep intellect. Each piece includes botanical elements as well as a nod to mother earth and the female capacity to nurture and grow entities beyond her physical self.