Coming of Age

A phase only a mother could love.  In exploring the experiences and emotions that make us human, so much of us is formed in the weirdest years of all: puberty and adolescence.   

This work explores the coming of age in the iGeneration, an identity metamorphosis, and a daily dying of innocence from the perspective of the person responsible for safely ushering him to the other side: his mother.  Through quiet observation and an occasional invasion of privacy, I create images that echo the emotions and experiences familiar to anyone who has survived this beautifully wretched and tangled phase of human life.