I plan to be forgotten when i am gone

Photography is a tool through which we understand and document the human experience. The theme I am exploring with this project, death, is one of our truly universal human experiences – and one to which we can only relate to tangentially until we go through it ourselves. Personally, my mother has terminal cancer, with a wildly uncertain survival period of a few months to several years. Globally, whether from COVID-19 or climate change, we are living through a time in which the threat of imminent death is inescapable. Art can mirror society’s fears: while this work is not specifically about the pandemic or climate change or cancer, the common theme of death, mourning, and uncertainty speaks to our time now.