Root Rot

The photographs document both small rebellions against agoraphobia and honest acknowledgments of its cost, holding space for the tension between the desire to retreat and the pull toward participation.

This work documents the practice of going outside despite anxiety, of witnessing the world even when it feels overwhelming. Each photograph represents showing up, a small victory over the impulse to stay inside and withdraw from both ordinary and remarkable moments.

The images shift between clarity and blur, between external landscapes and internal states and light recurs throughout. These moments feel discovered rather than sought, found by looking outward when instinct says to look inward.

The photographs focus on transience: seasons changing, breath exhaling, bodies moving, light filtering and fading. They move between documentary observation and something more atmospheric. This reflects living with anxiety and agoraphobia, the constant negotiation between retreating and participating, between the world's enormity and the controlled smallness of home.

This is photography as exposure therapy, as evidence of persistence. Each image says: I was here. I looked. I witnessed this moment of light and time. Despite the difficulty of leaving, I went to river. I walked into the field. I saw the morning mist. These are small acts of resistance against fear, quiet assertions that the world is worth encountering.

Sometimes enduring the tension between inside and outside, between witnessing and seeking safety, is enough. The photographs prove both matter: going and staying, the threshold and what's on either side, and the ways we bridge the two.