CONTROLLED CONDITIONS

Everyone’s identity is like a jigsaw puzzle which we start piecing together as we grow older to find out who we truly are yet we’ve all lost the lid so no one knows how it will look at the end. As you would normally do when you do a jigsaw puzzle you start with the corners: family, friends, hobbies and self image. Over time you will realise that some pieces don’t go in places like you change friends, find new hobbies or a family member has passed away so you have to move pieces around to fill the gap they have left in you. 

The centre of the jigsaw is your happiness, what makes you feel complete yet people tend to mistake this for a sole mate so throughout our lives we force people to complete us even though we can clearly see that they don’t fit our jigsaw. We do this because we’ve all grown up with the idea that there is someone for everyone, a prince for every princess which is why there is a 42% divorce rate in the UK and yet we force that person to fit the centre of our jigsaw, making space for them by pushing away family, friends and hobbies, changing our image to what they want us to be.

Throughout the blog posts you will uncover what inspires me and what I find defines me, what makes up my personality and how photographers inspire me to show my identity through photos showing the comedy in my life yet also what I tend to struggle with.