Info about the work:

Most IV bags are non-biohazardous waste, so usually are thrown into landfills. As just one patient, my Lyme treatment consumed about 150 plastic IV bags total... that’s enough to fill six trashbags. I’ve saved them all and have spent the past year hauling them around with me as I travel, photographing my IV bags out in nature (& recollecting them after each photoshoot).

I have been working on a new body of work titled “The Hidden Costs of Wellness”. I hope this series sparks conversation around the magnitude of costs for treatments like mine which hurt the Earth, yet stem from our growing health epidemics which are very much due to lack of connection with the Earth. Furthermore, as this planet gets warmer, epidemics will continue to rise. And as our treatments require more severe procedures, our collective medical waste will also increase.

The photographs from this shoot nod to the countless islands of plastic in our oceans… I wonder how much of that plastic is medical waste.

This work is part of my Hidden Costs of Wellness series