I've been lost in

This never ending forest

For almost a year...

If I recover

I'll finally be out...

Through the use of the cyanotype process I created this series with the concept of recovery and comparing it to a journey through a thick forest. More specifically at the time this series was created I was recovering from a year of depression and high anxiety. The journey to get to better place in my life was not easy and it really felt like I was trying to get out of the forest of my mind. Using large format negatives I chose to use myself as a model and allowed myself to be photographed in a vulnerable state. I altered many of the negatives by shredding them or simply wetting them to represent wounds on my mind. I tried to create a bit of a narrative with the way each image was ordered in the sequence with the first image being the beginning of this journey and the final image being the end.