The inaugural release for my brand new Print Shop! February’s print release features pictures of New York City. Most images were shot digitally on a trip in 2015 and focus primarily on the grandeur and intrigue of the city’s architecture. These prints would be a perfect addition for anyone who loves graphic black and whites or is longing for the Big Apple.

Click PRINT SHOP to view the collection.

The combination of therapy with taking self-portraits has allowed me to access my core self in ways I haven’t before in my life. I realized I felt the most me when I was creating which only made me want to create more. My journey into living into my artist self took off because of this project.

Observations in Childhood began in 2017 as a means of a grounding practice to help alleviate the overwhelm of being the main caretaker to two small children. Having the camera in my hands forced me to slow down and observe the world around me. More than that, it gave space between the moment and my role as mother; allowing me to become an observer of my world. Capturing these observations on film forces you to move forward as you cannot see what you’ve created until the roll is developed. Young motherhood can be heavy and demanding and it’s easy to get swept into that, capturing these moments on film brought back the color, the sweetness and the light that was there all along.

In somatic therapy, visualization is used to find avenues of healing. In my own journey, the imagery of flowers, fields of flowers, and the color green often came up. I did not fall into motherhood the way I was expecting and struggled deeply to be the mother I had envisioned. Layering of images of blooming flowers over self-portraits of myself as a mother gave me the hope of myself growing into the mother I want to be.

I believe mothers can exist outside the typical concept of the role, taking on different forms and shapes. The presences of flowers can give many of the qualities we seek from mothers: comfort, peace, warmth, connection, curiosity. In capturing these tulips, I approached them more as a portrait than as a still-life, posing them in the best lighting, finding their interesting angles. Treating them more as a person than as a flowers. Having these images then printed on fabric on a large scale allows for a person sized interaction with the work. The movement of the fabric mimicking gestures as if the viewer was in conversation with the piece.

“I must have flowers, always, and alway” - Claude Monet