In Cryptid or let the body be, E. Jane stages a lone figure partly hidden within dense foliage along a riverbank. Evoking Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha, the work centers Black femme interiority, using landscape as a site of care and belonging rather than exposure. Though nature and photography carry histories of violence and intrusion, Jane veils the subject in protective layers of branches and tinted light, creating a quiet, self-possessed space.
