Mata Atlântica, 2018

Wiggins was an artist in residence at the Kaaysá Art Residency located in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. While there, Wiggins integrated her long-standing I Ching practice with her experiences in the beautiful and fragile environments of the Mata Atlântica. Wiggins translated these contemplations into simple ink drawings. These drawings/meditations in turn influenced the performative photographs that she made with Brazilian photographer Fernando Lima. In two black-and-white photographs titled In Lourdina’s Garden, Wiggins appears beneath the giant Emperors Staff flower, also known as Bastão do Imperador. In the black-and-white Beach Chair, Wiggins lies naked horizontally in a chair on the beach looking toward the horizon. Wiggins appears shrouded in a diaphanous red veil near a waterfall in the series Cascade. The Mata Atlântica had a profound spiritual and physical impact upon Wiggins; the images in these series evoke that influence.

(photography by Fernando Lima)