My first book, BITING MY TONGUE, is officially published! Copies can be purchased with the link in my bio. The book is 108 pages and has a soft cover (8.5inx8.5in).
The book features:
Four worlds or chapters
20 poems
50 scans of silver gelatin prints
Biting My Tongue is an artist book about encounters with individuals who have substantially impacted my life. My lost love has found its place on paper, and heartache has grown into something more beyond a feeling. The project is divided into four worlds, combining sections of my poetry with analogue photography. This work initially began as a project about failed love, and the desire to make something tangible out of my time with someone. I took an analogue photography class my junior year in college, and I fell in love with the medium. The limitations of film photography drove me to construct narratives with characters and push my artistic boundaries by building handmade sets. Through photography and written words from my journal, this book became an outlet for all the things I never said or could express. My poems are specific and hold details for me and one other person to know. They are paired with a surreal image that depicts an exaggerated feeling. All photographs were printed in a darkroom and later scanned for the book.
BITING MY TONGUE has been out and about in book form for one year! 🖤
Yours Truly, the Seventies Ghost, 2024
11x14 Silver Gelatin Print
from Love Letters I Can’t Send
I leave my bookshelf messy because it does not yet feel like mine
A sentence written in my journal a month before moving to a new apartment. My non-archival Polaroid lifts are inspired by the impermanence of my bookshelf that I hate; I still don’t know what I want from it.
Polaroid lift on 6x8 paper
I wish my parents gave me a name like they knew I was going to be somebody
From Postcards on my Bedroom Wall 💌🪞
Photographed the summer I wrote Boston to be a metaphor, in 2024.
