This series traces longing as a form of love—photographed through the lens of personal memory, family estrangement, and the healing arc of sobriety and spiritual practice.

Using a Nikon FG20—rediscovered decades after first finding it in a park with my father—and Cinestill 800T film I began photographing daily life as a way of honoring what aches. These images explore the holiness of the ordinary, the softness of grief, and the quiet beauty of impermanence. Each frame holds a moment where I chose presence over retreat. Light became my collaborator. Film, my medicine.