Susan Patrice spent years learning to communicate with an Appalachian forest. What emerged was a set of practices that she used daily, much like gestural prayers enacted as rituals before photographing.

In this circle of relationships, each element has much to give. The sun gives the greatest gift of all, life itself. The plants offer endless gifts, each with a role in a complex ecological web, offering us food, medicine and countless other gifts both tangible and intangible.

Shauna Caldwell uses multimedia and photographic processes to honor land, familial connections, sacred relationships, and transformation.