Returning Home

Memento Mori is an ancient practice on the reflection of mortality that goes back to the times of Socrates. What if reflecting and meditating on the fact of death is a simple key to living life to the fullest? Or that it is the key to our freedom—as Montaigne put it, “To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.” It is in fact a tool to create priority and meaning. It’s a tool that generations have used to create real perspective and urgency. To treat our time, our life, as a gift and as a reminder that can bring us closer to living the life we want.

These images are a visual journey and a personal iconography into learning to love myself and unraveling the awakening of my soul. This is my story of going inward, opening the doors of my shadows, returning home. We each have our own version of how this feels and looks. For me, I’ve spent years not knowing who I am, and its becoming a mother that gave me the push to really see and unravel all the messy knots of my subconscious. Its motherhood that taught me how to nurture and love myself, to become my own mother. The awakening of the soul has taken courage, courage to see life for how precious it is, to live in the present, to find freedom in walking always towards death, for on this path I become aware of the miracle of life and find my wholeness. Life is murky and messy, but with a moment of silence those murky waters settle and all becomes more clear.

Interview Feature in Circle Foundation for the Arts 2020

Honorable Mention Monivisions Photography Awards 2020