Corporal Systems

Corporal Systems examines the ways plants build, protect, and repair their bodies as they move through their life cycles. Rather than centering the bloom—the moment most often framed as “beauty”—this series turns toward the quieter architectures that sustain a plant before and long after its flowers appear.

I focus on the structures created in response to need, forms that emerge from stress, adaptation, evolution, and time; the record-keepers of a plant’s lived experience.

By enlarging and isolating these oft-overlooked structures, I invite a different form of attention. Corporal Systems reframes botanical life as an ongoing negotiation between vulnerability and resilience. These are the forms that adapt and persist, in order to proliferate well into the future.