‘Aches’ is a project based off of my experience of grief and loss. The work is a representation of how it feels to exist in a state that threatens to overwhelm you. Grief can consume everything that you are and it can feel extremely lonely and stressful to experience it whilst trying to function in your normal daily life. This project visualises my own feelings of how I balanced on the edge of letting my emotions completely consume me and what a battle it was to not give in to letting myself shut out the support and love I had around me. Life can sometimes feel confusing and feel like you’re free falling with no end in site; there are things that feel larger than yourself which frighten you.

Creating this work was a cathartic experience for me, I listened to my intuitions with how I wanted the work to look as it can sometimes be hard to photograph a feeling, especially something associated with grief which is a very complex process. I wanted to create work that mirrored those confusing and overwhelming feelings that can be apparent when an emotional trauma is experienced.