GATHERING STARS
2021
Gathering Stars is an autobiographical photography project about motherhood, healing, and wonder. Created over six years, this work explores themes of mortality, fertility, longing, and love through photographs and words, beginning with my breast cancer diagnosis as a new mother, through my fertility journey and birth of my second baby, and ending with finding moments of grace in a pandemic with my two daughters. My daughters and I are observers and subjects in the photographs, demonstrating how healing and wonder live side by side during times of uncertainty.
Gathering Stars is a vivid and intimate inquiry into the fragility and resilience of life, harvesting truths about how nature manifests in the human experience and how finding belonging in our bodies is vital to finding belonging in the world.
The exhibition of this project was supported by the Ontario Arts Council, at the Lyceum Gallery, and in an online, custom built website experience.