Finding Bright
2019-2020
“ Will you let light find you?”
Finding Bright explores the intersection of childhood and adulthood, focusing on how the complex trauma of an unconventional upbringing can make the transition difficult.
I fabricate these environments to create a shared cathartic experience between myself and the subject.
Each image is pulled from my core, a memory that wants to keep me trapped in the darkness of my own past, inside the exhausting push-pull of a deep rooted codependency.
I marry ill-suited emotions to expose the personal intimacy that comes from locating a sick kind of joy in the middle of your darkness.
The theatrical isolation of my subjects is intentional. It calls on the viewers own internal road map, acting as a mirror for their journey - are you really where you hoped you'd be?
Inside these photos is the freedom I longed for as a child mixed with the sharp edge of this adult independence I am not ready for.
I am intentionally doing what I was scolded for when I was young: creating drama out of ordinary moments and it is every bit as glorious as I had hoped.
