sangre por sangre (Patreon)

Today is a hard day, a hard time. It is the new year. Although I'm excited, happy and thankful for all that is happening and ahead, like many, it is hard to ignore our world on fire and and the wars at hand. I'm calling this series "sangre por sangre" / blood for blood because these words hit me hard last night, as I was listening in on a conversation about our current global crisis / state of affairs. Not only do we mirror one another, those we surround ourselves with and come into contact with, but we also want equality. My sun sign is in Libra so I especially focus on balance... but where does this start and end? If someone dies does that mean we have to kill more people to make up for it? When does sacrifice suffice? When will it be enough? When we die? When we're all dead?

This series of photographs was taken many moons ago, a little over a half decade ago, I was twenty three years old. I was holding myself together, yet slowly slipping into my darkest hour. I was very aware of my own mortality, yet ignoring the reality, I wasn't taking care of my body. Like the planet today, we are aware, but are we really taking care? I took these self portraits with my soulmate Carolyn and Eric, the mountain man that walked out of the woods to guide us to the water on Deer Isle in Maine, at Haystack, just as the sun set. More simple times yes, but in the end, it was the same, we're all the same.