TOMORROW

A cinematic coming of age story, exploring the residues of light, memory, and feeling that remains once certainty gives way.

Tomorrow explores my experiences of the world. I am drawn to chaos and contradictions, and to moments of instability and upheaval. In searching for a bittersweet understanding of these experiences, this visual story reflects the desire to understand an ever-shifting world of uncertainty and affective moments that shape me. It is equal parts a cinematic coming of age story and an observational look at a past still not comprehended.

My perceptions of the world and the future are shaped by rising global issues and the experiences that shape me. I remember my 21st birthday, in the very first days of Melbourne’s first lockdown. I was stuck in my bedroom, isolated from the world, caught in between the transition of becoming a young adult. Time stood still, yet it continued to pass. As Melbourne’s extended lockdowns interrupted our lives, the experiences I dreamed of began falling into a state of precarity. This foreboding climate stems from ruptured institutions, climate issues, global conflicts, and economic doubts, all of which shift the stability of our lives, dreams and futures.

Through photographic storytelling, this visual story weaves together three bodies of work as it moves through the pages of my time as I emerge into adulthood. This narrative aims to evoke a cinematic experience, so that I can understand the turbluent, emotional, and ever-shifting reality surrounding me. Tomorrow is likewise a study of light — sombre, chiaroscuro lighting, to portray the disillusionment and internal instability of emerging adulthood, uncertainty and affective moments.