Pre-Mortem borrows its name from the idea of working backward from failure, imagining the worst has already happened so you can see how you got there and maybe change the outcome. Here, that becomes a kind of examination of conscience.

In these images, my body is sealed inside a plastic bag, a kind of transparent shroud or egg case, placed within our environment. I’m not outside of it; I’m part of it. The work comes out of a place of lament and prayer. It’s in conversation with Laudato Si’ and its call toward an ecological conversion, the idea that caring for the earth isn’t optional but part of our spiritual life.