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here are two things that are similar: places that should be full, but are empty. hearts that should be whole, but are broken.
how do you photograph empty, broken places?
or an empty, broken heart?
this collection was taken in an empty pool in the fall of 2017. like many empty things, it began as a quite full thing. in the many summers leading up to the fall of 2017 it was filled with things like this: sea witches and pirates, deep diving and swift surfacing, bright summer days and cool summer nights.
here's a new thing: filling a newly empty space all over again.
where do we begin? how do we make one small thing refill what was once a very full thing?
a person, a light, a shadow. the emptiness of this air fills this space as profoundly as water once did.
where we once would've drowned, we now breathe deeply. where we once fought to move against the weight of water, we now run without restraint. what was a swim to the edge is now a climb, a space that once broke our falls would now break our bones.