The narratives in this series (titled Vestiges 2.0) explore kinship with creatures, with the land and of healing through radical character cultivation and metamorphosis. The subject is collaborator Thasfia Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-American activist and model, who takes the form of a steward of an enchanted garden. The series is an antidote to tropes that populate troubled media landscapes, including pervasively in fantasy and sci fi genres with very real implications IRL—through overarching hyper capitalist agendas, profit-driven cultivation of nature, multitudes rendered invisible and made monolithic. This body of work is a reclamation of sorts with hyperreal tableaus of subversion through portraiture and fantastical mythical creatures within fantasy landscapes. Through subverting the artifice and the lurid and enticing language of fantasy genres and advertising, the images build worlds within worlds of re-connection, creating visibility of omitted narratives and of enchantment.