TORN reflects the tension between the stories we inherit about ourselves and the deeper truth underneath them, a truth that is both material and spiritual, woven through the same fabric.

There’s a type of rupture, exposure, and reassembly, not as destruction, but as a necessary contraction and expansion. The pain of breaking down old limiting beliefs about ourselves and the freedom that can come after. TORN is about what it costs to let old identities fall apart and what becomes possible when they do.

The butterfly appears as a threshold, a fragile marker of transformation. What emerges is not a new identity, but a quieter awareness that nothing essential was ever missing.

Each image is a one of a kind Photogram, Self Portrait created with a large format 4×5 camera and Polaroid Type 55 Film. These pieces are Silver Gelatin Prints on Ilford 8×10” Warm Tone Fiber Based paper. Printed in the Darkroom. Each photograph was made on photo paper that was ripped prior to exposing the image. Pieced back together after they dried. One photogram has a butterfly pinned to the print, two with handstitching. Each piece is framed 12 7/8” x 14 5/8” without glass.

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