This is a series of ten photographs where I wanted to encapsulate my own feelings of grief. To tackle this idea of how you even represent loss and what that even visually means. I knew that autumn and photographing the seasons change was something I wanted to focus on initially. I wanted to capture rot and decay, but that felt more literal and angry to me. With loss there is often emptiness, and I also wanted the melancholy of it to shine through.

Mushrooms are decomposers, so I went to a conservation marsh by my house to see if I could try to find some. I took photos of rotting wood, leaves on the ground with alive plants around them, and the color change in plants but felt that I wanted more than that. While I was out there, it started to rain and I think that worked in my favor. The marsh surprised me by opening up a way for me to also represent grief through the use of space by utilizing the structures that surround it. I initially wanted to do stuff in black and white, but scrapped that because I felt having it in color be as true to how I saw it was true to how I felt it.