This year-long project traces longing as a form of love, photographed through the lens of the sacred ordinary, the reclamation of home and belonging, and the fleeting beauty of daily life.

Using a Nikon FG20—rediscovered decades after first finding it in a park with my father—and Cinestill 800T film, I began photographing everyday moments as a way of honoring what aches. These images explore the holiness of the ordinary, the beauty within grief, and the gifts of impermanence.

Over time, the project also became an inquiry into fear and self-doubt as inseparable parts of the creative process. Each frame marks a threshold where I chose presence over retreat, devotion over avoidance, and sovereignty over silence.

Light became my guide. Film, my medicine. Through this work, I am learning to integrate fear and anxiety so I can access the raw, complicated beauty of being human.