Sweet Sixteen (2020)
Sweet Sixteen is a series about dissociation from my age. My childhood forced me to grow up very fast, and combined with the fact I was 5’7 at the ripe age of 10, I never felt or was treated my age. I’m also an only child and spent much of my childhood with adults, always closest with kids older than I was.
This series visually represents the feeling that comes around every birthday and was at a clashing height when I turned 16. Combining the classic girly birthday cake with candles and cigarettes is the cusp of adulthood constantly imposing itself on me and now having to let go of the childhood I missed.
This series visually represents the feeling that comes around every birthday and was at a clashing height when I turned 16. Combining the classic girly birthday cake with candles and cigarettes is the cusp of adulthood constantly imposing itself on me and now having to let go of the childhood I missed.