In the debut show by Nicole Pritchett - DAY DREAMER, women and nature can be viewed as vastly intertwined. Just as the earliest African religions embraced this ideology, Pritchett throughout depicts women and nature as inherently unified. Mysterious and dreamlike, Pritchett's women appear to naturally emanate a distinct sensation of harmony and oneness; the foliage, the fruit, and the birds, encircle, even at times, become the women. Yet the women remain remarkably inconspicuous to the point that they are almost always completely camouflaged by their natural surroundings until their facial features become almost indistinguishable. Women have long been associated with nature - metaphorically, as in 'mother Earth', for instance. Our language says it all: a 'virgin' forest is one awaiting exploitation, as yet untouched by man. In society too, women have been associated with physical side of life. Women have always taken care of day-to-day life so that men have been able to go 'out into the world', to create and enact methods of exploiting nature, including other human beings. Before the world was mechanised an industrialized, the metaphor that explained self, society and the cosmos was the image of the organism. This is not surprising since most people were connected with the earth in their daily lives, being peasants and living a subsistence existence. The earth was seen as female. And with two faces: one, the passive, nurturing mother; the other, wild and uncontrollable. Thus the earth, giver and supporter of life, was symbolized by woman, as was the image of nature as disorder, with her storms, droughts, and other natural disasters. As can be seen from these works, the subjects of women and nature can be as realistic as they are symbolic. The infinite bond between the subject and its surroundings, whether contextually probable or not, is apparent in all of these works, as is the manner in which the artist uses the use of color, light, texture, and other basic elements to convey the most stimulating harmony.