This new body of work is an expression of my deep interest in the intelligent, lush beauty of nature and its brilliantly creative strategies for propagation. I was compelled by an intuitive sense of the mystery and insistence inherent in nature's ongoing stream of living, natural immortality. I find that understandings and connections rise like dreams from what lies beneath. Although I am exploring personal metaphoric associations and emotional reactions to being female in a biological world, it is important to me that this work not be overly anthropocentric. I want to take fertility and nurturing beyond the experience of human reproduction to that of nature itself as an infinitely beautiful and dynamic reproductive system. With our species' ever-increasing fascination with artificial intelligence, I feel it is paramount to appreciate, respect, and protect our planet's greatest intelligence: natural biological life.