The Obesity Series

What story do I need to tell the world? In what experiences do I have expertise? For the longest, I could think of nothing. Then I realized that I have been dealing with obesity my whole life, for over six decades now. I think that may qualify me as an expert. I don’t mean “expert” as a scientist, health care provider or activist. I am an expert in the experience of obesity. I am a person with obesity born to a Mama with same. I am blessed to be surrounded by many loving, smart and capable friends who also happen to be obese.

The Obesity Series is about the experience we live. In this project I often use metaphor and symbols to express feelings and experiences that can be difficult to describe verbally.

Over the years, my interest in photography and art has been to find and to really see beauty in the everyday; the everyman, the everywoman and the environment in which we all live.

It must start with me.