In my personal work I am interested in capturing the fleeting beauty of everyday life, exploring the themes of intimacy, relationships and what it is to feel.
I use color, texture and light to create images that inhabit the space between the real and the imaginary, and are both an attempt to slow down and experience the wonder of the fleeting moments, and to escape.
The images featured here are from Bittersweet, an ongoing body of work about my relationship with my son and motherhood.
Having a young child leaves one little time to reflect, and often strips one of any sense of self. Photography is my way of hanging on to it, making images of what I want to remember and leaving the rest in the shadows.
We live far from our families, with little external support, and I spend the early years wanting more time to myself, not having enough distance from the events of our daily lives to appreciate them. As my child gets older, the anxiety about him growing up and wanting more distance creeps in.
I make these images to remember his chubby thighs and what it’s like to touch his skin and feel the weight of his body while I can still carry him. I photograph our love, but also the distance between us, with a superstitious hope that my fears won’t materialize if I spell them out in my photographs.
