The series The Season I Was Born started in the darkroom some time ago. I was layering negatives of women and trees and exposing them to light sensitive paper in order to create reciprocity between them. It was another project where I desired to honor the importance of nature and her healing powers. But the original idea fully developed years later when I rediscovered the prints. It was winter, my Hermit time, and I was thinking a lot about the individual seasons and the changes they bring along. How magical it is to tune into each season, listen, wonder, smell, feel…Something I didn’t fully embrace in my younger years. I realized that knowing each season better is like knowing myself better. Or is it vice versa? I think it is reciprocal relationship. The more we know each other, the more love and understanding flows both ways. I started to develop the look of the images in the darkroom first as gelatin silver prints and then further transformed them digitally. The final phase was layering the images on gelatin silver prints of natural elements that I made in the early beginning of my photography journey. 
                                                                                                             

 

I’m born anew each season

I’m a season herself

There are no boundaries set
We breathe each other’s mood

 

Drifting together and returning
followed by colors and sensations

One season I’m planting a seed
the other I’m harvesting

 

It’s deep and intentional 

The season deserves to be seen

 

She gives so much! How could I not notice?
The abundance of it brings me to tears

I’m born anew each season

I’m season herself