In late 2016, I spent several days at the Oceti Sakowin camp near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.There, I met the Blancheflower family, who had journeyed to support the resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline—a project threatening sacred Indigenous lands and the Missouri River's water supply. 

This series captures moments of daily life within the camp, a space where diverse paths converged around shared values of environmental stewardship and spiritual resilience. The experience revealed a profound contrast between industrial modernity and ancestral ways of living, highlighting the need to relearn our connection to the land and to each other. A visual meditation on the fragility of our relationship with nature and the possibility of alternative ways of being—where community, presence, and respect for the Earth take precedence over extraction and speed.