Artist Statement:

Echoes of a Heartbeat is a self-portrait series that reflects my experience of miscarriage and the emotional landscape that followed. These images move through moments I lived in—preparing for a life I believed was coming, confronting the sudden absence left behind, and learning to exist with a grief that does not simply disappear. By placing my own body within these staged scenes, I use photography as a way to externalize feelings that were difficult to articulate: the shock of loss, the need to be held together, the moments of breaking, and the quiet emptiness that followed. As the series progresses, the photographs shift from outward expressions of pain to a more internal state, where grief becomes something I carry within myself rather than something visible to the world. In the final image, I sit still while life continues moving around me, reflecting the reality that time does not pause for loss. Instead, I continue forward, living with the echo of a heartbeat that once existed within me.