The series I chose to share with you is titled the Fruits of My Youth, a photographic exploration of teenage girls' relationships to their bodies and to their environment. I believe in nature as a source of wisdom on how to reclaim our selves from manufactured, corporate interests that insist on artificial beauty as a chief feminine pursuit. My photo series seeks to document a relationship between individuals and nature and to invite the audience to see how we exist within a collective, harmonious body exempt from commercial aesthetics. The photos were printed using a cyanotype process, in which the sun is the catalyst for developing the film negative.