NATALIE’S PHILOSOPHY

“My ideas start from nature and take shape when I add a human into the environment. I may notice the shape of a rock, and see how it mirrors the female figure. I may see an animal in its wild habitat and remember that we were once wild too. I may swim through plastic in the ocean and wonder how it feels to be a fish with trash in its home.

My art is a result of my desire to reconnect with the natural world — especially through water, the element we all came from. My art is also a movement — to inspire appreciation and passion for taking care of our planet and ourselves. 

In my photographs I strive to activate the imagination and open the eyes of the viewer up to the beauty we often do not see in the world, in humans, in ourselves.

I like to take my viewer out of the reality they’re used to experiencing and help them see through a new, feeling lens. For example, the plastic in my photographs represents the impact humans have on the ocean — suffocating, not-meant-to-be-there. A human wrapped up, side by side a sperm whale who is vast, at home and free, shows how we’re all inhabiting & impacting this world together.”