Camille Rose Garcia has a new solo exhibition called Phantasmacabre, which draws on a language of symbols and icons of femininity and nature. The iconography is deeply personal to her but comes out of Jungian symbolism as well as mythology and fairy tales.
A few years ago she moved from LA to the Redwoods and in this interview in Juxtapoz Magazine, she mentions that being in nature calms her mind and enhances her creativity.
Also, this:
“You’ve been a voice for the environment your whole career. Will that always be a theme in your work?
Yes, the main theme of my work is our relationship as humans to nature. I really feel like something has been lost as humans, that we lost that connection and it’s destroying us. We have to stop thinking of ourselves as separate from nature. That kind of thinking is suicidal.”
“Camille Rose Garcia’s Phantasmacabre.” Juxtapoz, 15 Aug. 2016. Web. 21 Aug. 2016.
Interesting image, Leah! I’m struck by the heterotrophic variety in Rose Garcia’s image– the fungi, pitcher plants, moths, vampire, and vulture all seeming to share an affinity with the “teeth” in the center via their need to consume nature to sustain themselves. It’s not like autotrophs (i.e. plants and some bacteria) don’t use “nature”– but they don’t need to consume or parasitize other organisms to produce “food.”