The Weight of Light

"The Weight of Light" explores the unseen labor of motherhood—between constraint and refuge, endurance and care. The body and home become spaces of adaptation and resilience, revealing what is carried, left behind, and unseen.

Motherhood is often portrayed through moments of tenderness or exhaustion, yet much of its reality unfolds in between—in the quiet tension, the weight of care, the way the body becomes both refuge and constraint.

This work exists in that space—to explore the maternal body as a site of labor, adaptation, and resilience. It embraces the contradictions of motherhood—the balance between holding on and letting go, the quiet work that shapes both time and body. In repetition, there is beauty. In the weight of care, grace.

Motherhood exists in a paradox of visibility. While essential, it remains largely unseen—romanticized, expected, yet unacknowledged as labor. Through this work, I question how we see and fail to see the daily physical and emotional work of mothers. By shifting the focus from individual identity to bodily gestures, from sentimentality to physicality, from the idealized image of the home to its fragmented, chaotic reality, this series reframes the domestic space as a terrain of both devotion and endurance.

These images are not about defining motherhood, but about confronting its weight—what is carried, what is left behind, and what remains unseen.