Finding Eden explores how memory, loss and queer identity are held in the body and in the landscape. Through long-exposure self-portraits, I place my naked body within places shaped by family history, including the island where my father’s ashes were scattered. These landscapes carry grief, but they also hold a sense of freedom: memories of swimming in the sea, feeling cleansed and being able to exist without constraint.
My father’s illness and death have shaped how I think about care, vulnerability and the body’s changing presence. I work with handmade, delicate photographic processes that require time and attention, allowing the image to shift and remain open to change. The figure, too, is never entirely fixed. It emerges, fades and moves between body and landscape.
In Finding Eden, returning to these places is a way of being with what has been lost while making room for my own presence.
