Please join us for THE GARDEN, an exhibition and book launch with Bretta C. Walker.

EXHIBITION
A selection from a body of ~250 photographic works printed in cyanotype and platinum documenting a performance that took place over three years and across three countries. All works are printed on handmade paper and toned with various wildcrafted medicinal plant and mushroom matter decocted in waters gathered from rains and streams.

BOOK
"The Garden is the first volume in a life-long photographic series titled My Dirty Cunt & Me, which dually operates as an exploration of the phantasmagoric and as documentation of my most personal shadow work. This first instalment is a study in grace and healing - questioning how to mend the individual self during a time in which human sub/consciousness (read: the dream of the Earth) is so desperately ill. I investigate generational and genetic trauma passed down through menstrual blood and what forms a body yearning to trust and a heart learning to love again take on, all the while tapping into the flow of our breathing dance with the Kingdom Plantae"

-Bretta C. Walker

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Bretta C. Walker is a creative practitioner utilizing still and motion photography as means of documenting her performance in the role of Female Human in an intuition-driven and ritual-fueled practice. By harnessing the necromantic qualities of the photographic process to hold communion with self and surrounding - in concept and in form, her work addresses issues of liminality, femininity, and trauma.

Walker’s work is that of a deeply personal practice which rotates on an axis of healing while drawing cues from the resilience and sublimity of Nature and its intrinsic relation to the female condition and form. In her melding of alternative and archaic printing methods with her personal research and experimentations in eco-processing, sensitizing, and toning - alchemy, the hand, process, and a sense of locality are always present, driving forces in her work.

Walker currently lives and works in the high deserts of New Mexico where she spearheads the micropublishing project Evidence House, practices radical home economics, and seeks moon lodge.