Seeking

 My “Seeking” series is an intimate study of femaleness, and the curiosity of sisterhood. A very personal exploration of a childhood spent surrounded by six sisters. I began this series after years of being unable to see my sisters due to lack of time and/or money. We all live in separate states or cities now. I have one sister geographically close to me, Chelsea. With her help I explore my ongoing struggle with religion versus spirituality- my propensity to hide versus my desire to be seen. I wanted to convey the raw emotion of growing older, having children, losing, loving, seeking.

The objects collected for the still-life photographs are my reminders. They are memories of our girlhood spent at war with comparison. I am searching. I am picking through these blades of grass, seeds, vegetation, creatures, in search of the shared exuberance of ongoing mitosis that is a sister bond.

These scraps are little pieces of my mind arranged on a black cloth— A stone is a white farm house with a quilt hanging in the doorway to keep the cool air in, a vine is my grandmothers pastures filled with blackberry bushes, a beetle is our green Volkswagen camper, an apple is the discovery of our girlhood split open, the yellow flower is a large tray lined with cheese toast for breakfast. These aren’t just snapshots of torn leaves. They are meticulously chosen, and carefully arranged feelings.