Jasmine & Gasoline

Jasmine & Gasoline is a series inspired by the myth of Persephone. This time, she doesn’t return to the underworld, she breaks free. Through water, gesture, and intimacy with the natural world, the series traces transformation as a way back home.

Jasmine & Gasoline reimagines the cyclical pattern of descent and return in the myth of Persephone. This time, she breaks free. These images read as her notes from paradise, tracing her escape from emotional underworlds toward a deeper sense of being at home within herself.

Photographed along coastlines and urban edges, the series portrays a charged reunion with the tender natural world. Water, light, and touch guide Persephone toward a self-defined way of being. A faint trace of pomegranate lingers, like the myth she outgrows. A beetle suggests the path of metamorphosis. A figure entering the sea marks the crossing into a self once cast aside.

Moving fluidly between documentary observation, self-portraiture, and landscape, the photographs slip between clarity and abstraction, using focused details where identity loosens and reforms. The sea becomes both a site of arrival and transformation, a place where something long buried resurfaces. Rather than framing home as a fixed place, Jasmine & Gasoline imagines Persephone’s homecoming as finding a home within herself, beyond the cycles that once bound her. In this atmosphere, the camera becomes a site of reawakening, rehearsing a quiet utopia of rest, renewal, and internal bloom.

The material form of the work extends this inquiry into return and embodiment. Select images are printed on wood, aluminum, and fabric, settling into each surface’s texture and shifting with light. The pieces become part of the narrative, as if objects were artifacts recovered from the world the series imagines, or offerings from a future archaeology shaped by feminine autonomy and rest.