In this artwork, kinship between the human and plant life seems to take the central stage. Visual similarity between fleshy tree roots, twig like limbs of the artist’s body and objects/umbilical cords give rise to ambivalent feelings of belonging, but at the same time of parasitic dependency. Standing on the tree roots that are partly exposed from interiority of the mother-earth can give a sense of stability and connectedness but at the same time of the uncanny*. Umbilical cords are made from the artist’s childhood dresses and foam filler, reminding playful soft toys that often function for infant as transitional objects and substitution for a missing mother. Transformation of materiality of the soft toys into something disturbing, childlike but not childish, friendly yet uncanny, awakening childhood feelings and fears. Visible roots and umbilical cords emphasizing the fragility of boundaries between the inside and outside, intimacy and publicity, self and the Other. The stage for the photoshoot in Ragakapa forest (Latvia) reflects on the artist’s feeling of displacement after movement from her native country

*Freud describes uncanny as «everything that was meant to remain secret and hidden and has come into the open» (Freud, 2003:132).