I am you, and you are me
by Nicole CombeauThis zine, created in collaboration with artist Shenny de los Angeles and Miccosukee elder Betty Osceola, is an ode to the Everglades and our sacred relationship to nature. Through photographs and prayer, it honors the ways the land supports, holds, and connects us, while serving as a reminder to move through it with care, reverence, and respect.
The images were made during Shenny’s residency with AIRIE, where Shenny, artist Margo Hannah, and I spent two days exploring and immersing ourselves in the Everglades landscape, creating work inspired by our time there. Betty’s words are subtly woven throughout the zine—intertwined with the branches of a dwarf cypress tree and meant to be searched for slowly within the landscape.
Created amid ongoing overdevelopment and environmental harm in South Florida, this zine is also a gesture of care toward the Everglades as a threatened and deeply important landscape. It asks us to pause, pay attention, and consider how we live alongside the natural world.
Bio:
Nicole Combeau (b. 1994, Miami, Florida) is a Miami-based artist working across photography, book arts, text, and performance. Her practice explores memory, ritual, migration, and the ways people shape relationships to place through everyday gestures, landscapes, and acts of care. Through image-making, collaboration, and community-based work, she is interested in how art can serve as a tool for connection, reflection, and remembrance.
www.nicolecombeau.com
@beau_nicole
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