Portrait of the Crossroads (2021) is a mixed media instllation that culminates photos and videos taken throughout the Crossroads area during the summer months. I moved to Victoria, Texas in 2019 after living in London, England for nearly three years. Loud, fast, bright, and energetic became quiet, still, dull, and lethargic. Growing up I’d always lived in sprawling metropolises. Victoria was my first time living in the rural south. The painful and emotional transition opened the door for me to interrogate my identity and self-actualization in relation to my environment. It turns out what I needed most was a place where nothing reminded me of who I thought I was, so I could begin the process of excavating my authenticity. In the stillness, I found my rhythm.
March 2021, I packed up my apartment on John Stockbauer Drive and left Victoria, only to return in a series of trips a few months later. I spent the summer making portraits of various nooks and crannies throughout the Crossroads. For the first time, I acknowledged the beauty of a place that once was a constant source of pain. I allowed myself to interact with the uninterrupted horizons, the vast swaths of land, and the unbothered spaces tucked away into forgotten corners.
Photographing this series on film made me take my time in a place I used to rush to escape. It forced me to be intentional about the moment I’m creating in-camera. The film, titled "A Place to Wait," shows a moving picture of some of these spaces that I finally allowed to shape me into the woman I am today.
Portraits are a love language for me, I take portraits to show my affinity for a person, place or thing. Portrait of the Crossroads is a love letter to the place that helped me grow and find my stillness.
Portrait of the Crossroads (2021) is a mixed media instllation that culminates photos and videos taken throughout the Crossroads area during the summer months. I moved to Victoria, Texas in 2019 after living in London, England for nearly three years. Loud, fast, bright, and energetic became quiet, still, dull, and lethargic. Growing up I’d always lived in sprawling metropolises. Victoria was my first time living in the rural south. The painful and emotional transition opened the door for me to interrogate my identity and self-actualization in relation to my environment. It turns out what I needed most was a place where nothing reminded me of who I thought I was, so I could begin the process of excavating my authenticity. In the stillness, I found my rhythm.
March 2021, I packed up my apartment on John Stockbauer Drive and left Victoria, only to return in a series of trips a few months later. I spent the summer making portraits of various nooks and crannies throughout the Crossroads. For the first time, I acknowledged the beauty of a place that once was a constant source of pain. I allowed myself to interact with the uninterrupted horizons, the vast swaths of land, and the unbothered spaces tucked away into forgotten corners.
Photographing this series on film made me take my time in a place I used to rush to escape. It forced me to be intentional about the moment I’m creating in-camera. The film, titled "A Place to Wait," shows a moving picture of some of these spaces that I finally allowed to shape me into the woman I am today.
Portraits are a love language for me, I take portraits to show my affinity for a person, place or thing. Portrait of the Crossroads is a love letter to the place that helped me grow and find my stillness.
Portrait of the Crossroads
