Hope

With my project “Hope,” I faced the camera in times of paralyzed sadness as a way to process very complex emotions and to free the shock, loss and anger I was experiencing from heartbreak. By deliberately cutting emotionally fueled self-portraits into vertical uneven strips and reassembling them, I created the physical manifestation of letting go of a story that no longer served me. As a new self was re-contextualized and reconsidered, I felt renewed and invigorated, able to let myself shed the past and be free to find happiness. This profoundly therapeutic series is part of a larger body of work created over the course of 5 years.