This is a piece of what I had developed to describe what my anxiety feels like. I always envisioned it as this parasitic creature that festers off negative feelings, and I wanted to implement the use of black to show how it grows without having to pry into detail. I have always thought that the absence of light can mean more than an abundance of light; I find beauty in not creating much background details. I really love to highlight the object within a composition and for me I like to find a way to do that without adding detail that I find unnecessary to the narrative.

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My best friend had been going through some issues in her relationship at the time and while visiting me, it was a main point of our conversations throughout the trip. These were taken around 1am after we had spent some time drinking and talking about life; there was this moment where she just wanted to cry and let me set up a sheet behind her and a spotlight to take these pictures. I think it’s interesting to capture these experiences in almost this dramatic and void of distractions. It feels removed enough from the subject to become relatable through actions.

my best friend

I find that I really enjoying highlighting human emotions and experiences throughout my work. I feel like there is something so significant about capturing a subject in not only their appearance but what they want to convey through my piece. My friend and I had been shooting for around and hour in the studio talking about what was impactful for them in their childhood. Star Wars came into the discussion and she talked about how she would take random objects and pretend for hours that she was a character in the movies. I thought it was interesting because I had such similar memories to them that it really showed me how universal childhood imagination is. So we decided to improvise with objects around us and turn her into her own character for this piece.

playing pretend post adolescence 

Ritual is an odd thing to look back upon. What is a ritual ? Is it something that has an annual aspect to it, perhaps something passed down from generations before you. Or is ritual an aspect of life that you can manipulate to fit your own narrative? I highlighted my version of ritual into my process of “stimming” for comfort, by photographing the actions that I partake in to do so. I wanted to void the background of any color so it would be able to emphasize the act of doing so and how it become a hyper-fixated feeling.

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