I began working on "Reconstruction" in fall 2018 as an assignment for my Photography 3 class. The assignment was to create a theme and shoot through the selected theme as a long-term project for the entirety of the school year. I chose to continue "Reconstruction" in my fourth year of photography as an AP Studio Art student. "Reconstruction" will be the Sustained Investigation (Concentration) component of my AP Art Portfolio presented to the college board in May 2020.  

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” -Stephen King, Different Seasons

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.” ​-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ​-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.” ​-George Eliot, Middlemarch

"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." -Lewis Carrol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.” -Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives that we have imagined.” -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“She just run off with herself, I guess.” -Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” ​-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." -Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” -Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"Only connect." -E. M. Foster, Howard's End

“Do I dare disturb the universe?” -T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” -Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

“Your eyes are full of language.” -Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.” -Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing.” -C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.” -Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test