the project Concept

This project was born of a desire to turn off the constant doom-scrolling and find some peace and quiet in the real world. Nothing beats focusing on a task that won’t allow me the freedom to reach for my phone and click one more like button. I contemplated which of the themes that bubbled up during the pandemic I most identified with and wanted to explore:

Culinary Mastery
Grooming/Self Care
Herbal Wellness
Handicrafts

I created sketches and scribbled countless notes for this project. Some drawings were more high-level than others and functioned as a rough guide as to where I ultimately wanted to land. I allowed myself the freedom to explore more on shoot day rather than capture a specific hero shot.

The Work

Knit Your Own Sunshine

Comprised of a series of images involving my hands, yarn, and knitting needles. I taught myself to knit in order to create this series and truly fell in love with the meditative task.

EGG MASTER

The shot is a carefully rigged-in-camera image showing an egg in various states of completion. I’m poking fun at how a simple task can quickly overwhelm. The process of getting buried in food prep has the potential to very efficiently distract you from all your digital devices.

Lopsided

Many of us went without proper haircuts for the first year or so of the pandemic and boy did we get scruffy! All that time, all that hair, and we didn’t know what to do with it. How liberating then, is it to grab the scissors and start lopping off those long, tangled locks? Some are more bold than others in this department, and some cuts more successful than others. Good luck!

Tea Time

Look, we were all seeking comfort and wellness and isn’t tea supposed to have it all? There’s the warmth, the herbs, and the jitters. Maybe there is such thing as too much, but heck, I’ll take as much as I can get.