Inspired by Nietzsche, German Romanticism, existential philosophy and animal philosophy, my images want to affirm the human being as a natural being, an animal being, a homo natura. The femme body is the central motif in my work. I view the body as the closest, most obvious reminder that the human life form is natural, innocent, sensual and vibrant. Our bodies symbolise our living as creatures amongst other creatures, our biology and the primacy of the organic. Often I photograph the body in natural settings and broad landscapes, to break open those strange and unhealthy boundaries that have been created between wilderness and civilisation, nature and culture, nature and human, human and animal. I decorate the body with flowers, feathers, bark; sometimes I place the naked body in a human made setting. The process can feel like a ritual. I think of these images as celebrations of our bodily existence.