After living a life under the weight of complex trauma, I now know that I learned from a young age to search for and find the glimmers in my environment. My work is an attempt to document those glimmers with the depth of the beauty that I see in real time. While learning to heal from post-traumatic stress disorder, noticing vibrant colors and textures became a vital way to practice mindfulness and stay anchored in the moment. I see these photographs as true portals to the blessings in life most people don’t notice.
My creative process relies entirely on intentional composition. I frame each base image visualizing exactly how it will mirror, often using the sky to simplify the background into clean shapes. The symmetry creates a sense of balance, unity, and wholeness that I want to bring to surface from the world around us along with the intersection of physical, compositional and contextual beauty of these candid moments. Mirroring the image introduces just enough separation from reality to help viewers slow down, notice hidden patterns, and appreciate the striking balance between geometric and organic shapes.
With only basic edits and a mirror flip—leaving most frames entirely uncropped—these pieces stand first as gentle, visual reminders to pause and take in the glimmering blessings that the universe presents to us, and second as a physical manifestation of my own post-traumatic growth.
