And Now We Have Entered Broken Earth

In 'And Now We Have Entered Broken Earth', I use nature-inspired imagery to create a photo-story about intergenerational cycles, internal inheritances and resemblances, the process of growing-into and away from family members, isolation, inseparability and enduring love. I'm especially fascinated by the idea of family trees. For this series, I think of a family tree as an actual tree - a thing planted and stubbornly spreading, breaking its path forward and outwards, branching out. I'm inspired by the jaggedness with which trees grow, the clinginess between parts. Blood is like that, family is like that. I wanted to explore the struggle to stop repeating patterns that frighten us or make us resentful of ourselves. The title comes from that idea too: that for a tree to grow, it has to break the earth it is planted in.