Totem
Digital - 2022This is for the limitations of my body and dreams in which I run from something I do not know. This is my wish to be more than what I am. I want to stretch beyond myself and be as vast as the sky. I want to dance more, I cannot move my limbs to hold you fast enough. I carried this idea of being haunted within my body for years, I wanted to be in the crawl space beneath my lovers skin, I wanted to be part of those I loved as an extension of themselves and myself. To be one being, crowded.
I’m fond of this lighting and I’ve been aiming to master it for some time, now. Something about being lit this way reminds me of cigarettes in the dark and many times I’ve spent with my family after sunset. A festival where we were the last ones dancing, sparklers in the dark for a birthday, fireworks on the Fourth of July by the lake, fireflies in summer before we stopped looking for them, so many tender and private moments happened under this light. I want to keep it with me forever.