i will die your daughter
11.2025
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I will die your daughter is a study of mothers, daughters, and the things that are passed down between them. Through photographs of my grandmother, my mother, and myself, the series looks at how tenderness and trauma can live in the same family line. It traces the small, often invisible inheritances of womanhood: care, silence, fear, resilience, grief, and love, and asks what it means to carry what came before you while still trying to become your own person.
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In close attention to family and inheritance, the series traces the intimate bond between grandmother, mother, and daughter. It holds motherhood as both love and burden, where memory, trauma, care, and womanhood remain woven into the maternal line.
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This work comes from looking closely at the women in my family and the quiet ways our lives have shaped one another. Through the archival photographs, the series begins with the family archive, but moves toward something more emotional: the things that are carried without always being spoken about. I am interested in the way love, protection, grief, fear, care, and pain can all exist inside the same maternal line, and how a daughter can inherit not only stories, but gestures, silences, expectations, and ways of surviving.
The project is inspired by the complicated closeness between mothers and daughters, and by the feeling of recognizing parts of yourself in the women who came before you. These images are not meant to explain my family completely, but to sit with what has been passed down and what still lives in the body, the home, and the photograph. By placing images of my grandmother, my mother, and myself together, the series becomes a way of asking what we repeat, what we protect, and what we might begin to release.
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