"I made my project, “I Think You Should Hear This”, as an explanation to myself, of myself. My catalog of experiences is the only thing that provides me with any understanding in my search for reasoning of why I am the way that I am. It is my context. I learn the mysteries of myself by dissecting memories, my lingering thoughts, the recurring characters of my life, and moments I consider acts of fate.
In “I Think You Should Hear This”, I am sharing my life, the overflow of my thoughts, anxieties, and desires through revealing experiences that shaped me in some way or form to specifically find out how they have informed my ideas of attachment and love. I have built windows to moments that are very personal to me, that are telling of how much a person does not say out loud. Presented through my own personal photography archives, along with paired writings for each image, the body of work will be a series of honest encounters with people in my life who have impacted me, that have, in turn, led me to reveal the person, and artist, that I am today. I believe that, through seeing my most vulnerable side, viewers can sense a universal relatability that urges them to gain a new perspective of their own pasts, see how even the shortest histories can serve a purpose, and how they too can use reflection as a route to find understanding within oneself."
