My Dirty Cunt & Me // Volume. 1: The Garden

Artist: Bretta C. Walker 

Publisher: Evidence House and The Centre for Expanded Poetics (2019)

to those who seek, the primary impulse is to return to The Garden & the dark substrates of its mystery

The Garden is the first volume in a life-long photographic series titled My Dirty Cunt & Me, which dually operates as an exploration of the phantasmagoric and as documentation of Walker’s personal healing journey. This first installment seeks reparations with nature on both interior and exterior landscapes while also investigating the noöspheric trauma passed down through menstrual blood. A collection of over 250 platinotypes, cyanotypes, and silver prints toned with various wildcrafted plant matter.