Survival is the foundation of the human condition. It is an old recipe that is steeped freshly into every new generation, and infused into our species.  The color of our eyes and hair, the shape of our bodies, the size of our teeth, and even the cartilage in our ears are all a result of our ancestors’ necessity to survive. Human physicality as we know it to be now is the latest version of our protective condition, designed to survive traumatic events.  Trauma though, is a challenge to survival that is more than physical in nature.  Trauma is also sustained in the mind.  It is emotionally damaging, and not always a result of physically challenging events. Its psychological effects may manipulate our perception and our behavior completely.  In severe cases, it can lie dormant within in our psychic memories for years, disrupting our life experience day to day, without our knowledge of its existence.         

Every one has endured some type of psychological problem in their lives.  The degree of which does not matter in this conversation.  What is urgent is that we acknowledge the negative effects we exhibit that trauma has solidified, and face the events that cause the problems.   We heal from damaging incidences by deeply reflecting on who we are and questioning any behavior that could be considered dissociative.  This powerful journey of self-realization changes the course of people’s lives.   With care and support from others, we can experience more moments of wholeness and health.

Photography is my respite to go out in search of those whole and healthy moments. Photography helps me to put survival and traumas associated with it aside and see the world through how trivial it is as I find respite in the basics of the craft. Shape, color, lines, and light are used in a way to disappear sometimes, which is why most this work is straightforward from the street and city environment around me. Photography can also be manipulated and changed in a way that I call art to visibly wrestle anything in my subconscious that I wish to explain or show off.

Thank you for having a look at my work! Be well!