Seed in Transit

Part of BIOPHILIAC: Resisting the Rabbit Hole of Consumption, this image continues my exploration of non-extractive, low-impact storytelling. The seed over his eye is Entada rheedii—also known as the African Dream Herb or Snuff Box Sea Bean—often carried by ocean currents and used in traditional practices for inducing visions through dreams enabling communication with the spirit world.

This portrait imagines a traveler in motion—eyes shielded, yet guided—carrying memory and potential. A symbol of ecological continuity, the seed becomes both lens and cargo.

This is one of several experimental works developing a larger narrative about adaptation, ecological memory, and the future of human connection to the land. See more at jamiesolorio.com/biophiliac.