Thinking About Blue

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—each chapter a meditation on a feeling, a landscape, and a fleeting self.

Blue holds the water—its depths, its silences, its horizons. It’s the sea I returned to daily, not just for swimming but for stillness, a mirror for the emotional undertow that often defined my early twenties. 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 always slipping through our fingers. 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 not just documentation—they are emotional cartographies of what it meant to be twenty-two and female, trying to trace the boundaries of girlhood while standing in a country I didn’t grow up in but somehow felt deeply connected to. Croatia—specifically its coastline, its light, and its quiet—offered me a place where I could listen to myself clearly. Every frame 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. It is my offering to the visual language of becoming.