Photography of piece by Suzy Gorman

Installed at Mildred Lane Kemper Museum at Washington University in St. Louis for the 2025 Slow Gardens MFA Thesis Show

steeped in sepia

The past and present

constantly colliding

creating the current moment

transforming beneath the surface

Layers of myself

built upon each other

Like sediment

capturing all the versions within

All of the people and experiences

That left a mark on me

making me who I am today

sparking a fire inside of me

As strong as innumerable suns and stars

I am my own home

As all versions of myself take me by the hand

showing myself the way

The way forward, our future

continuing to embrace change

collapsing and transmuting, never stagnant