My Mum Can’t Swim
(2025 - Ongoing)
My Mum Can’t Swim is a personal exploration into my connection with water - a space where I find a sense of calm and childhood play, despite being raised by a mother who cannot swim and feels danger in its presence. This project follows the echoes of my younger self in order to represent the feelings I hold today, and depicts how we as humans, share this quiet universal bond with water, biologically, psychologically, and spiritually, in which we subconsciously turn to it when things get too much. We use it as a mechanism for solace, to touch all 5 of our senses. Through this imagery, I have explored the conflict between my inquisitive mind yearning to be submerged, and the protection from my mother, who never taught me to swim, but allowed me to be curious, and made it her priority not to pass her fear onto her children.