‘we carry it along our way’ is a photographic series exploring the significance of personal belongings and experiences on our memories and associations throughout our lives. We use things that may seem arbitrary to others as vessels - a childhood gift, the tree in your garden, favourite flowers.

These things change and develop with us, whether physically or through the meaning we attach to them. Memories take up a different space in our minds over time; what we once feared can be approached with love and vice versa, thanks to a shift in perspective, a new way of seeing. 

I have created this series with ideas surrounding symbolism in the forefront of my mind, but also used photographic techniques to portray our changing relationship to our memories. A scorpion, for example, when juxtaposed with the soft skin of a human body, can seem threatening, powerful, capable of inducing fear. Yet in death, it’s body crystaline, we see beauty and fragility.