The people I love are at the center of my work, whether I am navigating through or extrapolating from my meaningful interpersonal relationships. As a teenager, my default was ignorant love; it was not until I began to mature that I realized love's complexities. For me, loving someone does not mean to avoid their faults, but instead, acknowledge and understand them to better understand the person they are. The journey to that whole love does not always pan out: relationships flex and flow and sometimes end. But, the incredible potential of a constructive, loving relationship with people causes me to grapple with my own stubbornness and opinions. Especially in my art. 

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My creative work functions as a space to see and humanize those I know and those I want to know better. Thank you to the people in my life who love me, for the full person I am, enough to point out my blindspots and continue through the growing pains. 

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Below are two photographs I took of MAJOR people I love: my sister, Julia, and my brother, Robby.

 

xx, Carolyn