As my fascination with the shower experience which shifts the body into a reset or a sense of relief, grew, I have become interested in photographic journaling.
I began to photograph my mouth as I tell the stories of my own vulnerabilities.
This first one is entitled, When I was 18, I was raped by someone I thought was a friend.
I want to take the viewers on a story throughout this period in my life where ‘alive’ was not what I want to be.
I had been awaken to the fears of the world and stripped from the ideas of “if you’re careful, you will be safe”, “if you cover your body, you will be safe”, “if you don’t walk alone, you will be safe”.
However, it has come to my attention that I do not want the viewer to know the story or the title of the work when they first see the exhibition. I want to take them on a journey.
This has inspired an exhibition of photo albums. The albums will be filled with personal photographs of the year this event happened to me, although my face will be cut out of them; ‘protecting the victim’.
There will be text regarding this event throughout the photo albums, slightly getting darker and sadder until the last pages, which we reveal the event in its fullest.
