Becoming a Wildflower centers on becoming: a long-held wildness loosening. I photograph the dialogue between body and land—the way color dresses a place when we truly behold it. Wildflowers are tutors; their hues carry memory. In petals I hear my mother, brother, father—distant in body yet near within me. Nature has been home for years, and these two images ask for quiet communion: to see, to breathe, to listen as the unspoken emerges. What looks like stillness is release—a return to the sanctuary of the land and to the wildflower within.