Thinking About Blue

self published

At twenty-two, I traveled to Croatia with a 35mm camera and a quiet need to mark a moment in time. This photobook is the result. A three-part color story told in blue, red, and green, it is a meditation on a feeling, a landscape, and self.

Blue holds the water and its depths, its silences, its horizons. It’s the sea I returned to for stillness, a mirror for the emotional undertow that often defined my early adulthood. Red captures the evening light: warm, fleeting, and stained with the ache of change. It’s the color of late walks, wine-soaked dinners, sunburned shoulders, and the slow awareness that youth is never permanent. Green charts the terrain: the flora, the earth, the in-between places that map where we walk when we’re figuring out where we stand.

These images are emotional cartographies of what it meant to trace the boundaries of girlhood while standing in a moment in time that symbolized so much possibility. Croatia, specifically its coastline, its light, and its quiet, offered me a place where I could listen to myself clearly. Each page is a record of that listening. This book is about landscape as metaphor, about color as memory, and about how we build identity through the act of looking.