Growing Older

Words & Photography
by Lauren Lipscomb

"You will be lost and unlost, over and over again."

-Nayyirah Waheed

I enjoy growing older. Becoming, or perhaps accepting, accepting and allowing for, the pieces that have been hidden away in corners disguised as something to be feared, but all the while biding their time. The pieces that have cast glimmers of what might be, what could be.

While there will never be a completed picture, I enjoy the process of allowing the elements to emerge...

While there will never be a completed picture, I enjoy the process of allowing the elements to emerge; the growing into a space that, if only for a brief time, feels whole.