"No Walk in the Park" for Begin Collective

In No Walk in the Park, I investigate ideas of safety and its inherent tradeoff with freedom during my daily walks to the park near my apartment. I juxtapose nature’s organic elegance and openness with bright, unnatural colors, lights, and poses to mirror the intrusive thoughts and anxieties interrupting my attempts to peacefully savor my surroundings. By visually recounting a day through my eyes, I reveal the everyday beauty, terror, hope, vulnerability, and isolation of my experience living with post-traumatic stress disorder.