A World of Our Own
A space where it feels as if the world has slowed down and it's just the two of you together where nothing else matters except for the presence of the other person. Just you and I with nothing in between us. A space where it's almost as if we are right where we need to be, where everything is picture perfect.
Hoop Dreams
As a kid I would always find myself on a basketball court with some of my closest friends and for those couple of hours it would feel like nothing else in the world mattered. A place where I felt safe, where I made some of my favorite memories, a place that I could always count on when I couldn't count on anyone else. Just me and my closest friends. Just us having fun with not a single care in the entire world. This is what youth feels like to me.
In My Hands
Art for me was a space where I felt safe. When I was in high school I spent a lot of time dreaming and thinking about a lot of things. Most of it was spent staring at my ceiling and looking out the window just doing nothing. It gave me time to just breathe and experience and think through all of my emotions. In high school I was always on my laptop brainstorming ideas and just using my emotions and experiences as inspiration to hopefully put what I was thinking into a photo. Art gave me a space where I could be wholeheartedly myself. It was a place where I could be honest to myself and say what it is I need to say even if no one understood me. This is why I create.
Nothing Like the Silver Screens
These photos were taken at a drive in movie and I wanted to capture how my adolescence was not very picture perfect. I watched a lot of movies growing up and formed an idea of how I thought my adolescence was going to be like, but it was nothing like the silver screens. There were a lot of highs and even more lows but those experiences shaped who I am today. Even if I had the chance to go back and change anything, I wouldn't because I think that's the beauty of life. You can't really control everything in your life. You kind of have to just hope for the best sometimes and roll with the punches. These different experiences make us all unique. They make us human.
Anywhere But Here
Whenever I had a lot on my mind I would always turn to nature. I think there’s just something so calming and therapeutic about sitting in silence. It’s like the world just stopped moving and I could escape my reality for a little. In adolescence, I found myself constantly sitting alone and letting music fill my world to escape all my problems. I want to depict this feeling of serenity and therapy in being alone or even with someone else where your world just kind of stops.
Moonlight Lovers
I think love is very interesting. Two people, who were once strangers, who care about each other to the point where they cannot see their lives continuing without the other. This almost unbreakable bond or affinity for someone or something else is so unique that every single person's experience with love is different. The fact that you have someone else to be beside you throughout everything that you do, the fact that this connection you share with each other is just between you two is something that amazes me.