ARTIST STATEMENT

How do you pick yourself back up after what feels like a devastating loss, miss-step, or mistake made due to a lack of knowledge or experience?

For many poor, underprivileged people who are trying to make it out, the weight of a mistake feels crushing because it can be the difference between a better and more secure life or staying in the cycle of poverty. “The Window” highlights how athletes deal with this challenge in pursuit of a higher level.

People sometimes underestimate just how difficult it is to come up from the lower class in America given that most success relies on advantages afforded to some and not others. It’s why making this project resonated so deeply with me.

I hope this can serve as a reminder to not be so hard on ourselves when we do fail. And that at the lowest point, what matters most is how we choose to react in those moments.