Personal Water: A History of Tears

What is it that motivates people to smile in a photograph? Perhaps there are two reasons, so that the people in the photograph will be preserved for posterity looking healthy, happy and well adjusted. Another reason could be so that the viewer of the photograph isn’t confronted with images of people displaying a more vulnerable and (undervalued?)  aspect of the human condition.
I counter this conventional policy by deliberately celebrating and examining a more subversive emotion, one that is understood to be personal and private.
In some way, I’m living vicariously through my sitters, attempting to come to terms with my own burden of sorrow and often not feeling equipped to continue the series. I find myself compelled to deal with raw emotions that I and sometimes the sitter are unable to control. This is where grace can be found, in the lack of control. The openness of disclosure.

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