Life’s A Trip, 2022
Material: Archivel Inkjet Print
Life brought many unexpected changes, blessings and difficulties during the pandepic era that severely limited my time to create personal work. In the fall of 2022, I pushed myself to carve out time to go outside to take photos without any expectations other than to experiment freely with my Canon 70D digital camera that I had neglected for years. What began as a simple muscle excersise turned into an introspective reflection on the lack of clarity, purpose, and direction I was experiencing in my life a that time - in my art, career, relationships, etc. By exploring different exposure times and camera movements, these frames connect reality to new possibilities – blurring the line between traditional photographs and surreal art pieces. They are a representation of my journey of finding my way back to myself and doing what I love the most, which is to be present and capture the poetry I notice in the mundane. These photos remind me, and hopefully the viewer, that things don’t have to remain stagnant, and that new ways of seeing things are possible when we explore freely.
