3.9 miles – 9 minutes, 2020
It is, at times, difficult to separate personal life and work life. There is no off button at the end of the day when these worlds have intertwined since childhood. I grew up living next door to my parent’s business and their work was an extension of my home. As a child, it was a place I would go after school until my mother was ready to go home. Family has always been a strong presence, with my summers spent going to my grandparents’ home, “Rocky Nook,” as I called it. Now this is my home, as I am the fourth generation of women to life in this house.
As an adult, I struggle with a predetermined path, as I take on responsibilities in the family business. I’ve watched my parents sacrifice and question my own commitment as I consider my own future. As an artist, I navigate the spaces where work and family intersect and use photography to create moments of introspection, looking for clarity.
These moments, I am inserting a reflection of myself as the individual, image-maker, and as part of a family. A way to visualize these lineages I grew up being thought as the normal way. To confront my future – something I may or may not want the responsibility of, to choose between a preexisting path or forgoing and making a new path.
