In the current day, we live so much of our lives online. Wether it be sharing our space, kids, lifestyle or just glancing at those who do. As well as art and poetry and small local brands. Social media can be a wonderful place, it has provided me with words of encouragement, friendships, a way of communicating with and sharing my work to you all.
However it also comes with a pressure of perfection including having the perfect home. One filled with bespoke items, or artworks from a certain shop, rugs, homewares, the latest furniture the list goes on. But in reality we don’t need these things and some we don’t even want, it just seems like the thing to do. This pressure for perfection, the comparison game has us closing our doors to people, evaluating our finances to find money for new things and feeling less, when really the space you live in is special and unique because it’s yours it has your things, your memories across the walls. Each room has a story of you to tell, each corner holds a memory of a moment, that’s uniquely yours.
I recently photographed a beautiful family as they welcomed their new little boy, in their home. Unfinished walls, bare and some unpainted. But these are the walls they call home. The space their children wake to each morning, and sleep within each night. It may be a work in progress but it’s their space, changing as they and their children do. On this day it, their home as it was when they brought their newest edition home, as he grows and changes the house no doubt will too. As do all our houses, renovations or not.
The point is that your space does not have to be perfect to be special. It does not have to resemble the images you scroll past daily, or even how you wish it to look when it’s finished. It doesn’t have to be “Instagram” prefect, it just has to be your home, where you feel most relaxed and where your memories are made. The images created in the space are about you, your love and your life. Not your home, and as you can see here, it really doesn’t matter.
