This interconnectedness – sometimes it’s messy and feels like elbows and knobby knees and endlessly meeting others’ needs first and a desperate longing for an hour of quiet. But even then, it is beautiful in the most profound sense. This instinct to create love and multiply through it – the way we are filled by pouring ourselves out to empty – the way we are stronger when we’re knit so closely together… well hey, if that’s not the epitome of beauty, I don’t even know what is.

images are a mix of digital and film (Portra 400, dev + scan by TheFINDLab)