I used to never take self portraits because I never felt pretty. Then I grew up and realized that pretty is overrated, pretty doesn't matter. That I should give myself the space to both photograph and be photographed, even if it's in my normal clothes, no makeup, and/or hair unbrushed for multiple days, because portraits shouldn't always be glamorous.

When I take these photos of myself, I zoom out and envision myself as a character in a movie about my own life in which I am playing myself. They're just as much documentary as they are fiction. They're pieces of my life, in dreamlike spaces, posed to varying degrees. Taking these over the last few years has helped me process my aging, my growth, and acceptance of my physical form.