About this site

About this site
Gazing, Digital collage by Renee Rising

This is a collection of my life experiences. They are not in any particular order — they appear here as I remember them, as I sit with them, as I work through them. Memory doesn't arrive neatly. Neither does healing.


I have always struggled to communicate what I feel or think through words alone. What comes more naturally to me is making — through art, through photography, through the way a song can reach somewhere language can't. I am an artist and photographer, and those things are woven into these stories. When a piece of work or a song is tied to a particular moment in my life, I'll share it here too.

Some feelings don't have words. They have a photograph. A brushstroke. Three minutes and forty seconds of a song you've listened to a hundred times.

Mostly, I write for myself. The act of putting something down — of naming it — has its own quiet power. But I share it because I believe someone else may have lived a version of this too. For many years, I felt very alone in my experiences. If these pages find the right person at the right moment, that matters to me.

You are not alone.