Perfect Relationships - New Working Series

Paralyzed, I decided to stand here and think. But, there was not a thought that came to mind. Only the sound of my emotions echoing into the distance. Rooted in the Midwest, my ideology of the “Perfect Relationship” has been greatly infiltrated by problematic beliefs. I now sit here in a serious relationship, with a ring on my partner's finger. I sit here with financial anxieties of provision, personal fear and convictions, and a heart of gratitude, knowing that my mistakes are often overlooked by her love. How can I be any different from the mistakes I watched my parents make as a child? I have my father's perfectionistic mindset and my mother's soul of worries.

Perfect Relationships is a staged reality of a young couple. The images are captured and edited in a love-forward color palette. The moody lighting helps render the emotions of the images. As a whole, the series is a juxtaposition of an old-western film and the contemporary lifestyle of a loving couple hoping to build the Perfect Relationship. Often the composition finds itself with harsh cropping techniques that help blur the reality of the scene. These scenes are conceptualized by a combination of dreamlike anxieties and realistic memories of the past.