My senior thesis project, Then again it will be, is named after a line in the song “Ten Years Gone” by Led Zeppelin. I chose this name to represent the inability to return to the past and at the same time the certainity that things will inevitably repeat themselves. I imagined this through the changing of the seasons from winter to spring. Appreciating the beauty in the harshness of winter and also the relief that Spring would come to melt the ice. Despite Spring coming it would eventually be winter again and instead of facing the inevitable change with resistance I wanted to learn to face it with appreciation of the temporality of life.

I wanted to extend the reverence I had for the natural world to my own body; in all of its forms. If I am unable to recognize my body in its beauty then this project has allowed me to see the ways in which it functions is far more important than how it appears. Stretch marks which I have wished to eradicate became roots, markings of growth, scrapes and bruises, signs of resilience. The life line on my palm is like a river. The separation between body and earth beginning to blur.

These photos were taken over the course of three months through slow cautious steps over ice and afternoons laying in the grass. I included different parts of my body on translucent sheets of fabric allowing me to hold parts of myself softly in my hands. The same gentleness and curiosity I’ve learned to looj at a photograph, is how I’ve began viewing the change of seasons and the body.