Four Walls

My art looks to inspire self empowerment, through embracing our vulnerabilities. This is celebrated through fragile and detailed imagery, centered around the narratives. In my work, I talk about personal fears and darker experiences. I give my characters opportunities to wear these like a crown. How can we appreciate our light when we brush the darkness under the bed, ignored? I hope that my work can show people how multi-layered each one of us is, showing a unity in our humanity.  

I talk in my work about personal experiences such as mental health and my ever-growing relationship with my autism. I choose to represent these in my work through visuals such as decay, bones, and shadow filled corners of a woodland. My new series 'Our Beautiful Demise' speaks on a similar theme: wearing our fears with pride, binding them tightly to our flesh. I have grown up fearful of my personal shadows, I now instead hope to educate others on this and create a platform to spotlight issues we all go through.

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.” -Tennessee Williams

This photo is inspired by my recent experience with isolation. It was a very surreal time where I wasn’t able to leave the house for just over two weeks. There were positives in that I could get lots of work done, but it brought on a feeling of fear for the outside world. - Home started to begin crushing me, but in an oddly comforting way. As if the weight of its bricks and furnishings were giving me the only hugs I was able to receive.

Photography, Print on 310 GSM Canson Rag Photographique Paper. Shot on Nikon D610

20.3x25.4cm

Unframed

Edition of 20