6 Years Long

This is a series of self portraits taken over 6 years, 2015-2020. I've always found solace and safety in photography, these years I found therapy. A smile when you’re smiling and smile even if you’re heart is breaking. It was a way to be able to find humor, and joy in the highs and lows of life. I could make a world for a few hours that was free of responsibility to anyone else. No one human could take away my laugh. This was my soul, my world, and I just wanted to create a protective bubble, because life. The life I created because of pain. The life I lost because of pain. The joy that I feel now looking back and knowing I survived it. These 6 years felt like a rollercoaster, but it was also just as much of a slow carousel. The world in my eyes is a strange colorful carnival.