My medium is photography. Becoming a mother has been a transformative experience for me, putting me back in touch with my deepest self. There are so many themes and paradoxes in motherhood, a whole world of issues to explore, so many things you're confronted with. It is an intense and rich experience that continuously pulls out the rug from under me. Motherhood is uncomfortable and unpredictable, a constant affront to order and societal rules that seeped into and calcified my view of the world without my realizing it. Every interaction with my children exposes another layer of stories I unwittingly adopted continuously reminding me how narrowed and contaminated my perspective is. I like to explore topics that challenge my generally accepted paradigms and blindly consumed norms. Flipping my beliefs upside down in this way has become such an insightful part of discovering how society and the people around me shaped me as well as how they're shaping my kids now. My children have taught me to question and explore everything with playful curiosity. They've literally turned my world on its head. It's a deeply humbling experience.

At the moment I am making a photo book about the spontaneous still lives my children leave behind in our environment. It explores curiosity, learning, absurdity, impermanence, and questions children's antics as irritations and naughtiness and our need for control as adults. The images are a meditation on the mundane, a celebration of play and exploration, and an invitation to adults to look at annoyances in a different light. You can follow that project on Facebook and Instagram:

https://www.facebook.com/randomtoddlerfind/

https://www.instagram.com/lizardbreath11/