Summer in the City

I took these photos last summer on a disposable camera in New York City.

These photos remind me of our September theme “Running and Returning,” and how one cannot exist without the other. These photos remind me of “17” by Youth Lagoon, “Michigan, 1997” b. Dolly Valentine, “everything I wanted” by Billie Eilish. A feeling of inspiration, growth, change. I don't know where I belong. I don't know where I will be ten, five, or even one year from now. And no, I'm not talking about college. I don't know who I will be in the future. There is exhilaration beneath the fear of this assertion. These images remind me of the excitement of discovery in the past ten years and beyond.