My overall idea for my exhibition is to use light photography to express emotion. I wanted to explore something more personal for my body of work and wanted to show how light can illustrate emotion without any words. I am now able to capture a photo that clearly shows emotion without having to explain it. I want people to view it as a story of lightened feelings. I am exhibiting 2D, so I want people to see it from every side but an emotional side. Overall, my body of work shows that everything has an unnoticeable side to it; it just depends on how you perceive it. What I initially wanted to convey was using light to show how emotions in the brain work. Now, I have made it more about how light expresses emotion in a photograph.

In three of my images, swirlies, blue light, and water bottle, I wanted to express how the environment around us can affect our emotions. Many ideas have crossed my mind throughout this process, and a common theme that kept popping into my head was the idea that you can’t show your emotions. I am using light to express feeling in my work body, and that it’s okay to be sad, angry, or confused, etc., some of my pictures have been influenced when I moved to the United States. My work was also influenced by Frida Khalo, who incorporates her life into her paintings; I find that super fascinating. I wanted to copy that but translate it through light.

I chose to exhibit it around Swirlies because I wanted to illustrate how each picture is related to something in my life. I wanted to show how the images represent my bubble and the emotions that fuel it. All of my photographs are related to each other because they are depicting different stories, emotions. Some of my pictures were just experiments and did not have an intent or a concept. Overall, light photography is very complex and can be very flexible, like trying to express something. Sunlight can make fantastic shapes which makes it fun to interpret it in your way.