Liminality

Liminality becomes a site of quiet reckoning, where memory, emotion, and identity are held, examined, and gently rewritten. One is no longer who they were, not yet who they’ll become, they sit at the threshold of past and future.

Liminality is an ongoing photographic exploration of women in states of awakening and remembrance. Through raw, intimate portraiture, the work examines identity, vulnerability and the deeply personal experience of reconnecting with oneself.

My relationship with this work began in 2025, when I attended my first women's circle during a retreat immersed in nature. Stepping away from the demands of everyday life, I experienced a profound remembrance of parts of myself that had become obscured in the years since becoming a mother. It was a return to self, awakening questions I had explored much earlier in my artistic practice through my training at Art School in Australia.

As a young artist, I was drawn to the complexities of my inner world, the psychological spaces we inhabit and the push and pull between opposing emotional states. Years later, I find myself returning to these thresholds with a perspective shaped by motherhood, lived experience and a deeper understanding of what it means to be a woman.

Within these circles, women enter a liminal space where the old story begins to loosen its grip and what comes next remains unknown. Grief and joy coexist. Stories are shared, emotions surface and the body expresses what words cannot always hold. Central to this experience is the act of being compassionately witnessed by other women, creating a space where vulnerability and strength can exist together.

It is here that my photographic practice unfolds.

Portraiture becomes an intentional exchange between photographer and subject. Each woman consciously chooses to meet the camera, unmasked and open. I invite her to present herself as she is and it's important for me not to offer direction or influence. In a moment of breath and stillness, the portrait is made. The photographs retain the natural textures of skin and the unfiltered presence of the women before me.

What emerges is raw and powerful, vulnerable yet deeply connected to self. They hold women within the uncertainty of becoming, where familiar identities begin to shift and something instinctive and deeply human is remembered.

Each encounter within these sacred spaces becomes part of my own journey. I emerge with a renewed connection to myself, my artistic practice and a deeper sense of purpose.

Through Liminality, photography becomes both a record of remembrance and a continuation of my lifelong inquiry into the inner worlds we inhabit. The work continues to evolve, exploring the thresholds we encounter and what becomes possible when we allow ourselves to be witnessed.