But In The End, Love Will Return

For much of my artistic career, most of my work has been creating self-portrait series about the intense experience of being a woman. Whether it is about relationships, body image, caretaking or grief, my own experiences have been shaped through the lens of womanhood. The work that I am currently making for my MFA thesis is examining photographic self-portraiture as a form of social practice. Can an artist tell a more communal story by explicitly sharing their own experience? This series began when I started documenting my grief after the death of my father (for whom I had been caring) in March 2020. An aspect of this that I am greatly interested in is the concept of truth within the tradition of self-portraiture. Fact and fiction are not a binary, but rather a spectrum and I enjoy blurring the line between the two when photographing myself.