Resonant Signs is a feminist meditation on the re-enchantment of the natural world. Rooted in climate awareness and the use of natural materials, the project explores mycelium as both medium and metaphor—an interconnected, regenerative system that challenges extractive, hierarchical, and patriarchal modes of relating to the earth. Mycelium embodies collaboration, resilience, and care, offering an alternative vision of power grounded in reciprocity rather than domination.

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The work is deeply informed by the medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen, a visionary woman whose authority emerged not through institutional structures but through lived experience, ecological observation, and spiritual insight. Hildegard’s concept of viriditas—the greening, life-giving force of the divine—articulates a theology rooted in growth, embodiment, and interdependence. For her, greenness was not symbolic ornamentation but tangible evidence of divine creativity immanent in the world. It appeared in gardens, forests, and cultivated land—spaces historically sustained by women and marginalized labor. Hildegard understood viriditas as something to be cultivated within both body and soul, affirming the sacred intelligence of the embodied self.

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This project aligns with that lineage, reclaiming spiritual authority through material practice and ecological attunement. The works seek to embody divine vitality as an act of feminist resistance, honoring slowness, care, and intimacy with the land. They propose that deep self-reflection—spiritual, ecological, and embodied—emerges through direct engagement with nature rather than abstraction, control, or extraction. The spiritual dimension of the work is inseparable from its material processes. Through a sustainable, hands-on practice, I cultivate a relationship with nature that understands divinity as immanent, relational, and alive within the landscape.

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I forage and process materials into earth-friendly dyes, working with fruits, flowers, seeds, roots, chalk, clay, and mycelium. This labor echoes historically feminized practices of gathering, healing, and making—forms of knowledge long undervalued yet essential to survival and continuity. The series consists of twelve paintings, each housed in a Gothic-style cherry wood frame that references the High Middle Ages while re-centering women’s spiritual and artistic contributions. At the apex of each painting, a glass window functions as both a spiritual aperture and a cosmological symbol.

A cosmology explains the whole; a window reveals a part. Together, they affirm that every fragment of the world—and every body—can serve as a site of revelation. The completed work includes twelve illuminated paintings alongside twelve companion photographs taken in sacred natural sites. These images bear witness to climate change and ecological loss, situating feminist spirituality within urgent environmental realities and collective responsibility.