Love You More by Emily Wiethorn
The relationship between a mother and a daughter is complicated. As an adult, I am relearning who my mother is, not as my mother, but as her own person filled with hopes, dreams, and worries. As children, our parents are timeless, a constant in our lives if we are lucky. Seeing my mother age is a beautiful and terrifying experience.
Coming to terms with my mother's mortality has lead me to reconsider our relationship. In this series, I am finding what’s changed between both of us; rediscovering the complicated history we share both as mother and daughter, and the secrets that are just ours. What used to be strained, silent, and untrusting has changed into acceptance, vulnerability, and growth. Love you More, is an ongoing exploration of the openness and intimacy of our relationship as two adult women, mother and daughter, and photographer and subject.
I now understand what it means to be the daughter of a daughter. In my search to understand the relationship with my mother, I had to confront the secrets and sins of her relationship with her mother and how she became the woman she is. Over the course of nearly five years my mother and I have been rebuilding and confronting our relationship. I am slowly finding what’s changed between both of us; rediscovering the complicated history we share both as mother and daughter, and the secrets that are just ours. Love You More is an ongoing exploration of the openness and intimacy of our relationship as two adult women, mother and daughter, and photographer and subject. During our time together we have reconnected in new ways and grown to understand each other. We have crossed boundaries and built bridges with our photographs. Collaboration and mutual respect is key in this body of work; we aim to understand the human connection that exists between the camera, the artist, and the subject.
Emily Wiethorn lives and works in Cincinnati, OH, USA.
To view more of Emily’s work, please visit her website.
