I’ve always communicated in a way that other people sometimes find a little… abstract.
I’ll say something that makes complete sense in my head, and the person I’m talking to will hear something quite different. It used to frustrate me. I’d be trying to express one feeling or idea, and somewhere between my thoughts and the words, the meaning would shift. People would take it differently than I intended, and I’d be left wondering what had gone wrong.
Over time, I came to understand that this is part of how I experience the world. I have ADHD. My mind moves quickly, makes connections others might not make, and thinks in ways that don’t always follow a straight line. For a long time, that felt like something to work around. It took me a while to realise it might also be a gift.
Abstract photography gave me a language that finally felt like my own.
When I look at a scene and my mind immediately sees something different within it — layers, colours, a story hiding inside a reflection — that’s not a glitch. That’s exactly the kind of thinking that makes abstract work possible. The way I see the world, the way I process it, the way I find meaning in things others walk straight past — all of it is there in every image I make.
Abstract art has always had that quality of openness. There is no single correct interpretation. Meanings shift. Viewers bring their own experiences to it. It is flexible, layered, and full of possibility — which, if I’m being honest, describes my own thought process fairly well.
I’ve come to see my work as a form of self-expression that doesn’t get lost in translation. When the image is abstract, the viewer is free to feel whatever they feel. There’s no miscommunication, because there’s no fixed meaning to miss. The work simply is what it is, and whatever you find inside it is valid.
That freedom has been quietly healing for me. It’s taught me that my way of thinking — the one that once felt like a source of confusion — is actually the very thing that drives my creativity.
Abstract photography didn’t just give me a style. It gave me a voice.