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Poison Ivy's Powers

Added 2025-09-30 22:27:29 +0000 UTC

Is this the first time Poison Ivy has played with her powers just for herself? Most certainly not. But it is the first time a reporter has been allowed this close, camera in hand, as she experiments with what it means to be both bound and connected. Vines wrap snug around her calves...not as a trap, not as punishment...but as a reminder that nature and humanity are intertwined, inseparable, bound together in ways we forget too easily.

Her most impactful quote from our interview?

"People always imagine nature as something we have to conquer or control, but the truth is, we’re already part of her design. The bonds you see here aren’t chains. They’re connections. The tighter they hold, the stronger we both become. Humanity thrives when the planet thrives. Isn’t it beautiful to imagine us growing together, instead of tearing each other apart?"

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I'm deeply inspired by G. Willow Wilson's ongoing comic of Poison Ivy. Especially in the earlier volumes she explores climate doomerism and Poison Ivy's relationship to the everyday person as she wrestles with her own problems. There is one issue in particular that really inspires me. In it, she finds a hope-instilling project that changes her orientation to tackling the problem. Time and time again, when I think Wilson will falter in her depiction of this wonderful character, she instead turns it around and re-inspires me.

I left you with some additional photos: two shots from G. Willow Wilson's comics that capture some essence of what I was aiming for, a picture of her quietly thirsting after women, and a shot from last year before adding a plant wall in Photoshop, and after.

Oh, and that last one? Just a little sneak peek for what's to come.