How have you been cleansed? How have you been physically cleansed? What do you do, where do you go to feel weightless? What is your relationship with water? Four questions. Four questions that cascaded into interviews with people I know but don’t fully ‘know’, in fact becoming a cleansing experience in and of itself. Cleansed by explores the relationship between self, the divine, and one’s definition of being cleansed. Created out of the necessity to dive deeper into what it means when we experience a "cleansing", this photography thesis focuses on the different interpretations ( literal, spiritual, metaphorical ) we associate with that experience. Volume One marks the end of my undergraduate studies, with the majority of interviewees being students or recent graduates - their words serving as direction for the photographs.
