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This project is a work in progress, based on the prompt, “the old future’s gone.”

Reading fairytales when I was young taught me that I didn’t want to wait for tomorrow and miss an opportunity for today. While the future is never certain, I learned that regret is one of the few emotions I find it very hard to bear. Taking a leap of faith may lead to hurt or heartbreak, but rarely to regret.

There were years when I wasn’t sure if I would survive the heartbreak of being alive in this world. But I have survived. And I decided I would rather risk hurt, and heartbreak, and disappointment, and misunderstanding for a chance to experience something wonderful, to fall in love, to feel connection, to stay curious, to be moved deeply by this messy, beautiful world.

Thinking about the future, I wondered, “Do we know what the new future is or are we in a space between?” And I kept coming back to a personal goal I set many years ago—to create from a place of curiosity, groundedness, whimsy, love, connection, and joy.

These vignettes are the beginning of something new. I’m not sure where it will end up, but I hope to always face the future with a camera in my hand.