elaina dowdy

ART - BS

Children have not yet been told which parts of our natural world deserve our attention, allowing them to view “undesirable” things such as weeds and snails through an unbiased lens. In my work, I aim to deconstruct the learned biases of adulthood and rewrite the things that are seen as valuable by placing the unappreciated faces of nature on the body in the same way that one would typically wear jewels. This allows the same snail which would normally lead a fleeting existence of being met only with disgust to instead be immortalized as the crown jewel.