The dual impossibilities of representation and expectation.

(A letter to my daughter.)

Photography and text often have a symbiotic relationship; one aids and enhances our understanding of the other. We are able to create nuances of meaning by combining them.

In this project, I attempt to make sense of my expectations of motherhood, the reality of the experience and my emotional responses to both.

I use images and text relating to me and my daughter to explore the limitations of representation inherent in both mediums – it’s impossible to fully represent the variety and breadth of the emotions or to show more than a tiny fragment of the relationship she and I share.