Reconnecting With The Divine Muse

Photographed by Natalie Karpushenko.

Natalie Karpushenko is a Kazakhstanian photographer and environmentalist who began her creative journey as a photographer at the young age of eighteen. Since then, through fine art education, travel, and bare passion, she has achieved to build a brand for herself and her message while capturing the two true creators of life, women and the earth.

​​From the gentle curvatures of the female body, to the firm and dramatic patterns that stretch throughout our planet’s skin; Natalie captures in various frames a female muse nestled upon the surface of a breathtaking ecosystem and in some instances, harmoniously blending with animals. She represents the natural spiritual connection between the human and the earth by displaying its primal beauty.

Her photography elevates women into an ethereal organism that cohexists, blends, and alienates to mother earth’s frequency. Soft angles, a minimal editing style along with a clever use of lighting; Natalie’s muses play the mother and at the same time, become the kin that sits in the womb of gaia. Vulnerable, intimate, and elegant, the bodies of subjects sprawl and lounge comfortably upon natural surfaces, as if once again, returning to the natural flow that carries the cycle of life.

In most of her pieces Natalie presents the muse suspended or interacting in a body of water, and this is to raise awareness and advocate for ecological consciousness. In her portfolio website she shares her philosophy:

“My work is a movement to inspire appreciation and passion for taking care of animals, our planet and ourselves. My art is a result of my desire to reconnect with the natural world – especially through water, the element we all came from”

As human beings, we come from the earth and remain inseparable from it. In works like these, the fusion of body and landscape reveals a natural order, one that feels instinctive, precise, and almost mathematical. In our strive for technology, artificial evolution, and unnecessary innovation, Natalie Karpushenko hooks us back to our reality and true nature as primal, living beings and the beauty within the simplicity of our existence.

Reconnecting With The Divine Muse

Credits:

Photographer: Natalie Karpushenko / @nataliekarpushenko
Words: Ethel Romero / @_bby_ella_

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