"Fortify your hearts with rest. Rest is part of our resistance.”

-Tricia Hersey, The Nap Ministry

Paula is often inspired by words from The Nap Ministry. Rest. is. Resistance.

Paula Champagne is a visual storyteller from Somerville, Massachusetts, specializing in video, documentary photography, illustration, and graphic design. Champagne’s multimedia work communicates authentic human experiences. Inspired by her own experiences in the outdoors—her most recent passion projects explore and honor the intersection of Blackness, nature, and the quiet resistance of rest.