I adore photography. I adore the dark and I adore playing with lighting; so that is exactly what I did. I took multiple series of pictures that I used as development ideas only (some went nowhere, some continued on to be a part of a demo film I had made to text the content that I wished to show in my end work).
The things I ended up using were the things involving the potential harming of my own body. I have reasons for this, stemming from my history in self harm over abuse. But there was another reason for doing this.
I felt like this was a matter regarding life… I felt like abuse of any kind in the home environment, in the place of safety, was essentially a pair of scissors against your lifeline. A knife against your throat. In some cases… actual death. This is where I stopped playing with photography and got to playing with film making instead.
