Hands in Your Food

Emily Graf

Food is a source of nutrients for the body. Food is so much more than this. 

It is something that brings people together, something that we hold very close to us. 

Food is something that we cherish because it isn’t permanent, it can be taken away from us. We hold onto something that won’t be with us forever, like people. Our friends, family, teachers, we hold them close. As I explore my relationship with food I realize my connection to food is not as positive as most. Struggling with eating different textured foods I found myself becoming pickier and pickier. Only liking a few foods I began to struggle with my weight and how I viewed my body. I was no longer comfortable in my own skin, I began to loose who I was. My art is a journey, it helps break down barriers that I wasn’t comfortable in before. I am no longer afraid of my connection with food

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Emily Graf

Sitting Room, Photography, April 2020, 11×14

This big change in everyone’s lives will be remembered for a very long time and it will absolutely go down in history. These changes really pushed my work into a more domestic space, my home and my apartment. As well as beginning to take pictures of myself as the main subject. I realized that these interior spaces almost seem disrupted by me putting my body into the room. This is what these changes are all about, realizing that this pushed me to love myself, my body, and appreciate the space that I have to take these images during this time. Also these domestic places didn’t know what it was like to have people stuck inside its walls for such a long period of time. So forcing myself into the frame plays on the new ways that these spaces have become tiny adventures within your home. History has changed and helped me find my passion for self portraiture as well as become more comfortable in myself.