Novena, A Collection for In Her Light: A Women's Film Photography Exhibit, October 2025

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Last summer, I met a healer who advised me to behave like the water—to flow, so my body and spirit could.

 

I grew up in the water. I played mermaids in the bathtub for hours, ran through the sprinklers in my grandmother’s garden, and still remember learning how to swim in my aunt’s pool. Water once meant play but today, it’s become a way of living: to rage, to soften, and to surrender into flow.

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Novena is a visual altar built from grief—the grief of living in a stagnant body shaped by Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome; of feeling disconnected from my femininity because of it; and of worn-out patterns in love and thought. Yet, it’s also built from hope, and from the repeated practice of holding that hope to reclaim one’s power.
 

Shot on analog film across California’s oceans, lakes, and pools, and in the quiet of my bedroom in Nevada, these photographs and handwritten journal fragments are relics of return. They mark the meeting place of the devotion I was raised with and the faith I’ve found in the water—two currents merging to guide me home.​