tomorrow year

Examining the unfamiliar self in familiar places.

Image Credit: Justine Hu

Each image speaks to the examination of self. More specifically, the uncanny aspect of growing up and the unfamiliarity you feel towards yourself as you grow older but find yourself in the same spaces. 

"The world appears behind a sheet of glass. I try to get through...I keep moving to know I'm alive. I dress carefully for the party, hoping for wild unknown things. And I try to get near nature. Nature, no longer wilderness, sad and past its prime, but still so seductive, coquettishly offers up an escape route."

I was inspired by this Barbara Ess quote from I Am Not This Body, and wanted to find the introspection in the mundane. To create a sense that time has stopped, where ghosts of the past and future selves make an apparition in the same place.

Photographer: Justine Hu
Model : Min-je Hwang