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Mother Nature Series

I road trip a lot with my twins and husband in our 2002 eurovan with a pop top camper. However, I wasn't always a nature loving gal. I was raised in Los Angeles with a single mom and we certainly did not have vacations or get to run free on the busy street often used to get to the airport. However, the beach was always our solace. On weekends when my mom was overworked and run down, we'd head to the beach and stay for hours. My mom could relax, listening to the waves of the ocean take away all of her stress while my brother and I built elaborate sand castles and force her boyfriends to take us out into the water so our mom could rest. I had fun then, in a child like sense, but it wasn't until I went to college at UC Santa Cruz when I truly felt the power of nature in the redwood trees. I would duck out after class and get lost in the maze of the forests for hours and hours, it held me when I felt nobody else could. In 2005, my mom was killed and the only thing that felt like it could take away the pain was getting up before dawn and watching the sunrise at the beach. Looking out into the vast sea was the only place I felt I could still feel my mom and whose waves took away my sorrow as it did my mother's when I was a child. What were a few more drops of tears in the vast body of water that was the ocean?I It took them all and asked for more I truly feel like those mornings during the darkest days of grief where I held my husband's hand as we watched the sky turn from black to the softest hues of pinks and violets, reminded us everyday that there is in fact light after dark, that nature demonstrates the cycle of life and death every single day. After having my own twins years later, my world was in a constant state of chaos. I found that taking my kids into nature was the one place where they would never have a meltdown, where their bodies felt free and their minds would go wild with imagination. As the years went by, we found ourselves heading into nature more and more for longer and longer amounts of time, it's where our family felt the most alive, where we were most cared for, in the arms of Mother Nature. This Mother Nature series is an ode to all the mother's out there who care for their young and the greatest mother of all, our mother earth that cares and heals us so deeply. Every print in this series is named after a mother I know and love and was taken on one of our various road trips where we get lost in nature. Each one of these prints was an inspiration for me, I hope you feel the connection when you look at them too