Biting My Tongue

Biting My Tongue is an artist book about encounters with individuals who have substantially impacted my life. My lost love has found its place on paper, and heartache has grown into something more beyond a feeling. The project is divided into four worlds, combining sections of my poetry with analogue photography. This work initially began as a project about failed love, and the desire to make something tangible out of my time with someone. I took an analogue photography class my junior year in college, and I fell in love with the medium. The limitations of film photography drove me to construct narratives with characters and push my artistic boundaries by building handmade sets. Through photography and written words from my journal, this book became an outlet for all the things I never said or could express. My poems are specific and hold details for me and one other person to know. They are paired with a surreal image that depicts an exaggerated feeling. All photographs were printed in a darkroom and later scanned for the book.