"An Abundance of Unreasonable Hope takes its title from a line in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck that made me pause when I first read it and has stayed with me over the years. Her words have shaped the way I think, see, and make, and she is one of my many greatest influences as an artist, thinker, and maker.
These photographs were created during a period when nothing felt certain. When I first thought of them I imagined painting the images that I was seeing, and how these thoughts moved through many my living phases. Confusion, paused, frustration, and the gradual push toward action. Each phase carried its own thick lessons, and together they brought me to a place I didn’t expect: one where I feel driven, grounded, and determined from the inside out, even when the outside looks calm, put together, a marvel.
Hope hasn’t been something obvious. It has been something I chose to hold on to, especially when everything felt uncertain. These images reflect that decision: to move forward even without clarity, to trust the smallest spark, and to allow change to happen in layers.
A record of that process the phases, the transitions, the inner momentum that pushed me out of the pauses, the corners and into motion. A place where doubt and determination can exist at the same time, and where the possibility of something better begins to take shape.
This is my abundance of unreasonable hope."
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