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I have always loved taking pictures but it became a serious exploration of it's relation to emotion when I was about 25 years old. Newly divorced and recovering from the perils of a violent marriage, navigating through feelings of new found freedom juxtaposed against the responsibility of being a newly single parent I found myself experimenting in self portraiture, trying to find myself, trying to replace all the photographs that had been destroyed, make myself real again in the context of who I had become and was becoming and of course processing through a great deal of emotional baggage that started in childhood.
Thirteen years later the themes still run through my work. Abandonment, independence, strength, fragility, light and shadow. Abuse, angst, political unrest, dissatisfaction and the yearning for more. Growing up with a mentally ill father these themes of instability also run through my work. I explore themes of femininity and bohemianism, counterculture, oppression and liberation. I also have a great appreciation for beauty in it's simplest and sometimes most unexpected forms.
But who am I? I am the girl who grew up thinking she was different from everyone else. I grew up in the shadow of secrets, where many people have skeletons in their closets it seemed that our house was a skeleton and we were trying to find a way to navigate through this, adding flesh and substance to a life lived on the premise that bucking against the oppression of normality was the truest way to live. When I was young I started writing poetry, and I continued this as my main art form for many years. I found it was a way to give a voice to things, to bring a little beauty into a world of chaos, poetry has some structure to it. I find that my photography for me is very similar to poetry, themes of darkness run through it and composing a po
Thirteen years later the themes still run through my work. Abandonment, independence, strength, fragility, light and shadow. Abuse, angst, political unrest, dissatisfaction and the yearning for more. Growing up with a mentally ill father these themes of instability also run through my work. I explore themes of femininity and bohemianism, counterculture, oppression and liberation. I also have a great appreciation for beauty in it's simplest and sometimes most unexpected forms.
But who am I? I am the girl who grew up thinking she was different from everyone else. I grew up in the shadow of secrets, where many people have skeletons in their closets it seemed that our house was a skeleton and we were trying to find a way to navigate through this, adding flesh and substance to a life lived on the premise that bucking against the oppression of normality was the truest way to live. When I was young I started writing poetry, and I continued this as my main art form for many years. I found it was a way to give a voice to things, to bring a little beauty into a world of chaos, poetry has some structure to it. I find that my photography for me is very similar to poetry, themes of darkness run through it and composing a po