Maddy_Voyages

Written By Joe Medina

For this project, I wanted to represent my relationship with my best friend. Our communication has more or less dried up over the past two years because we don't see each other anymore, but my time with her was some of the most ethereal of my life, and it lent me memories that I grasp for today. I used this project to find her and to as well find myself, and I'm learning how to see myself through my relationship with her. Finally, I connected our relationship to that of my mine with my mother, since a lot of what I saw in her I also see in my mom and even sister. She was almost like a second mother to me in some aspects of my life, even though we we're the same age. What I'm trying to say is that she has had such a profound impact on my life that I've been too terrified to unpack in fear that it's going to lose its joy. But, through this project and self-realization, I've come to see that the joy isn't going to get lost if I think about our time together - it's going to be seen and loved. 

Response to favorite photo (the one with two girls smiling layered over another two girls smiling):

This is my favorite photo by far for a few reasons. One of them is that she looks happy, and that happiness goes deeper than the surface. It also represents a time where I was possibly the most happy I have ever been, when I had few worries beyond if I was going to call her in the morning or call her tonight. (Oftentimes, it was both!) The photo also illustrates the overlap I feel between the various woman-to-woman relationships in our lives, such as those with our mothers, with each other, and with our siblings. The overlayed upside-down photo is my sister and my mother, and the right-side-up photo is my best friend and her mom. These relationships all mirror each other in a way, and the love that we feel for each other, especially that I feel and have for so long felt for her, remains a constant throughout.



Joe Medina
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