to the thing that is right in front of me, offering me the means to GET IT OUT. the means of capturing, containing (and setting free) these things i see and experience. the agonizingly beautiful images, the in-betweens of life, that i harbor safely inside and get lost in. hold myself up against and often feel separate from. in the claiming of these things, the practice of uniting self and other, i will take pictures. i will sometimes leave them raw and i reserve the right to manipulate them until they speak my truth. the truth of what i see. i'm giving it up…the question of what should i be doing. and doing the thing that is right in front of me.  for now.