My piece is about growing up in Florida. Known for basically being the sludge melting pot of America, Florida is home to some of the wildest stories that pertain to all things that fascinate me like race, age, politics and more. Florida also includes a dark side of drugs and alcohol abuse with a string of mental illness that runs through it. Nearly all my friends in this book have struggled with one Floridian issue to the other. Throughout the years I have snapped photos of my friends and of the sunshine state itself and over the years I never knew what to do with them until I realized this common theme that goes throughout all the photos. The Florida sunshine is apparent in everything even as I document this book it is visible in its effects, illuminating everything in reachable sight. Under this Florida sunshine the best and the worst of things occur. Some of the better things include plant life that I have collected from various road trips over the past few years in the state. To keep a positive overtone to the piece all drug and alcohol related things are very loosely referenced in the glitter alluding to the HBO show Euphoria that utilizes the sparkle to symbolize the feeling of the side effects of popular intoxicants in the teenage age group. To reflect the array of life in south Florida an array of colors were used. To reflect the landscape layers and layers were added to be reminiscent of the forest floors like those in Jupiter and Loxahatchee. And finally just like the Florida buildings the flowers and leaves within the pages of the book match the color scheme of the page like homes in Key West.