Returning to the Feminine is a photographic exploration of women’s circles, nudity, and ritual as pathways back to the body, the land, and one another. It remembers belonging - how we root ourselves in each other and in the natural world when protective layers and roles are set aside. Here, intimacy becomes reclamation, vulnerability becomes strength, and nudity is not exposure but a gentle shedding, a return to presence and truth.
Created on 35mm and 120mm black-and-white film, the work embraces grain, shadow, and texture as companions in witnessing. The slow, tactile process of film mirrors the circles themselves, each frame a small ritual of listening to body, land, and moment.
The photographs were made on the lands of the Bundjalung and Kabi Kabi (Gubbi Gubbi) peoples. Respect is given to their Traditional Custodians and Elders past, present, and emerging. The spirit of waterfalls, rivers, and skies carries this work, reminding that healing is inseparable from earth.
At its heart, this work reflects my passage from disconnection to belonging. Shaped in post-communist Poland by survival and fractured community, I now turn from hardness to softness, from isolation to connection, from ego toward unity.
