Dani Dodge's residency at the Mojave National Preserve began in 2018, and she made regular visits through 2021. Over those years, she developed a relationship with the Preserve's Joshua trees. She felt the joy of their abundance in the first two years, the devastation of their burning in 2020, and then a glimmer of hope at their potential recovery in late 2021.

"To me, they are souls. They are gods. They are nature incarnate, and I grasp onto their struggle to survive deeply within my soul as though it were my own," she said.

“Embracing the Incarnate” follows and documents Dodge's four-year journey of love with the Joshua trees and the Preserve in art.