Bloom, My Holy Fruit is a celebration of the feminine within culture, nature & ourselves. She shows herself, naked, pure, bursting of color. She is liberated and sovereign. She nurtures and surrenders. Her creative impulse is to reflect and to become, to blossom and to dissolve. Her journey is to flower into herself.
Mother Tongue (2025)
Ingesting psycho-active substances opens our aperture, a gentle distance yet a merging. To observe oneself through the eyes of the universe, separation can no longer hold root. Fruit upon fruit. The Mother has returned. Breathe beyond the veil of naming — into the fractal where all returns, where in every cell the Mother remembers herself. Where the body humms in tongues older than word and dissolves into the great phosphorescent cycle of creation.
‘Mother Tongue’ was especially made to promote the exhibit ‘Higher Love: The Psychedelic Roots of Modern Sexuality’ at the Museum of Sex in New York.
Flower Freedom (2022)
A flower can only bloom of free will. When she is ready, she opens with full confidence of life. She cannot be rushed, nor forced into color before her season. Her petals unfold on her own time, in her own way. She bends toward the earth in devotion. And in her folding, she rises in fierce bloom against the open sky.
If Only I would be a Flower (2022)
Playboy Germany selected Marisa as one of the 50 artists to art direct a cover for their 50th anniversary issue. We veiled our original ‘Flower of Life’ image, the first ever NFT of a vagina, in a radiant landscape of 30,000+ tiny flowers. ‘If only I would be a flower’ is the first vagina in history on the cover of Playboy.
‘If only I would be a flower’ is a celebration of nature yet it is a longing to be celebrated for the beauty we naturally inhabit. It is a play with the edges of censorship and an anticipation for the freedom that is awaiting us.
Nectar of Life (2023)
On the periphery, where lava meets the sea, a moment of simultaneous death and birth sparks creation. Emerging from the void of light, the nectar of life drips down, creating a landscape of form, folds and deep mystery.
The nectar of life is the molecular liquid of all flowers, she invites you to focus beyond her sumptuous layers, to blend within her golden haze, to be her co-creator.
* ethically sourced honey from the big island of hawaii
Flower in Flower (2022)
I believe it is the absence in understanding and acceptance of our bodies that inhibits us to experience the world, within and around, as a spontaneous symphony. Sharing my Flower Of Life is to inspire a way of seeing that will once again bring us closer to the natural world that we are. Because to see ourselves in nature’s reflection is to embrace our beautiful complexity - and with the grace of embracing, we can accept.
— Marisa
A paradox of our times is that the natural has become seemingly unnatural. We want to cover that which is born naked & pure in the world. This covering, this hiding, corrupts the natural, makes it feel un-pure, and robs us of our humanity. My desire with this work is to re-naturalize & re-sanctify nudity and the body. To see us in the flower, and the flower in us.
— Michael
Flower of Life (2021)
With simplicity, she undresses culture from its thick layers of propaganda, stripping away inherited shame and narratives that obscure what is immediate and real. In her presence, what remains is clarity: the body as it is before it is interpreted, corrected, or concealed.
Flower of Life is the Mona Lisa of liberation. She asks us to free ourselves from misconception and shame in the ongoing cultural war against the human body. A flower does not question its right to bloom. The ocean does not apologize for its nakedness. Nature expresses itself without shame, and so do we. To look upon ourselves without distortion is to encounter the geometry of existence itself — the portal through which all life enters, the sacred architecture of the body.
Nectar of Renewal (2020)
Nature’s nectar flows through the feminine breast. Anyone who has tasted her knows, she is liquid soil, malleable mass, like Earth herself. Her wild sweetness attracts. Her need to feed is deep. She cultivates through offering her innermost sustenance, creatrix milk. Drink my nectar, Mother Nature, I offer to you, myself.
Devi Puja (2022)
Devi Puja refers to the ritual worship of the Divine Feminine in Hinduism — Devi, meaning “goddess” or “shining one.” It is a devotional practice dedicated to honoring the many forms of the Goddess, who is understood as both immanent in the world and transcendent beyond it.
In Devi Puja, the goddess is not approached as distant, but as present — within nature, within the body, within consciousness itself.