Ceremony is part of a series of personal projects that explore art through the lens of music and literature.

I photographed this series using a vintage lens, emphasizing texture and soft moments. These images were made in conversation with Rosmarie Waldrop's poetry, finding beauty in the intentional rituals of everyday connection.

You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature which I had thought to save for a more difficult day. In the mirror, every night, the same face, a bit more threadbare, a dress worn too long. The moon was out in the cold, along with the restless, dissatisfied wind that seemed to change the location of the sycamores. I expected reproaches because I had mentioned the word love, but you only accused me of stealing your pencil, and sadness disappeared with sense. You made a ceremony out of holding your head in your hands because, you said, it could not be contained in itself.

Rosmarie Waldrop