The Heart and The Heavy

Life is full of stories – some deeply personal and specific, others universally relatable.  Becoming a mother was life-changing, but not in the way I expected.  Though there has been no greater joy for me, the responsibility of another life has proven to be at times a heavy load.  Thinking about this in a literal sense, I imagined a heavy home on my shoulders, yet held tightly with love – a burden and a joy, a challenge and a reprieve.  This became the first image in the series The Heart and the Heavy. From there the stories evolved, just as my life has.  The genesis of an image comes from moments of life, like a still from an old movie. Movement and pain and the simple joys of being alive are frozen in time – a study of fictional worlds based in reality.  Telling someone’s tale in a world not quite like our own.