Andrea Simms is a St. Louis-based artist utilizing visual mediums as a means for story-telling. With a background in farming, their eye is often drawn to the cycles of life, the meaning in the growing and changing. Working with Andrea often means a walk in the park, taking notice. They have a practiced ability to connect with their subjects, allowing their work to reflect a moment of organic intention. Andrea’s work explores how intimacy is built from a slow curiosity and a practiced hope that lies within our ability to honor life’s interconnections. Their photography inspires their audience to be present in noticing these patterns, and building from them a world that responds to connection: what is the feeling that warms, what is the beauty that draws the eye, what is the smell that closes our eye to savor.