“Bittersweet” is an ongoing body of work about the conflicting emotions of motherhood, where love and joy live next to the feelings of  frustration, guilt and exhaustion.  

I collaborate with my young son to recreate moments of tenderness and tension. Together, we make a colorful and mysterious world of our own, using light and shadow as a metaphor, with our lives bright and colorful on the outside and piles of laundry, dirty dishes and some of the darker feelings obscured by the shadows.

I make these images to remember his chubby thighs and what it’s like to touch his skin and feel the weight  of his body while I can still carry him. I photograph our love and nightmares, with a superstitious hope that my fears won’t materialize if I spell them out in my photographs.