Exploring the living conversation between body, art, and planet.
FEATURED WORKS
A selection of visual, lyrical, and cinematic works exploring the kinship between body and Earth.
Marianne Bernhard’s multimedia works weave together painting, writing and film to reveal the parallels between human anatomy and the natural world.
Through color, texture, and rhythm, her art listens to the Earth’s voice within us.
BREATHE
Painting · Film · Lyrics
BREATHE explores the kinship between lungs and trees – between the breath of the body and the breath of the Earth. Created in memory of her brother, the work bridges grief and ecological reverence, revealing how respiration connects all life.
MAMA QOTA
Drawing · Watercolor · Documentary
Mama Qota explores the connection between bodies and water, honoring the Aymaran belief that lakes are extensions of us. Through drawing, watercolor, and film, it shows that caring for water is caring for ourselves.
ALCHEMY
Visual Triptych · Essay · Short Films
Alchemy interweaves visual art, lyrical narrative, and film to explore emotional responses to climate change — shame, nourishment, and disconnection — and the alchemy that transforms them into awareness.
Marianne Bernhard - ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is an inquiry into how body, Earth, and art are inseparably entwined. Whether through painting, film, or lyric, I seek the points where anatomy and ecology meet – where the rhythm of breath mirrors the wind, and rivers flow like veins beneath our collective skin.
Each work begins as a gesture of listening: to the intelligence of water, to the physiology of grief, to the alchemy that turns awareness into healing. The mediums I use – brush, lens, and voice – interweave like systems within a single living body.
Through projects such as BREATHE, Mama Qota, and Alchemy, I explore our shared responsibility to the planet by revealing that the boundaries between personal and planetary are illusions. To care for the Earth is to care for the body, and to create is to remember that both are sacred and alive.