AfterLife is a photographic and sound-based project documenting botanical growth emerging from human bodily decomposition at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF, Freeman Ranch), an extant body farm in San Marcos, Texas. The images function as portraits of the deceased; individuals whose bodies returned to the soil and entered into collaboration with the surrounding environment, giving rise to new life in the wake of death.
Centered on our relationship to mortality, loss, and grief, the project reflects on the ways contemporary culture has distanced itself from the physical body, from death, and from mourning practices. It considers how this estrangement shapes our beliefs, rituals, and future encounters. Composed of photographs and environmental audio recorded at FARF, AfterLife attends to the lingering presences that inhabit the landscape, revealing how ceremony, tradition, and absence continue to define the grieving process and lived experience long after death itself.
