Taking the Back Seat is a visual love letter to growing up in the mid 90s to early 00s - it’s about the crossroads of being a kid and the passage of time. As I was consolidating ideas, I kept returning to the concept of the ‘back seat’ – both in the literal, physical sense, and the more metaphorical interpretation of ‘taking a back seat’. As a kid, I had to make do with the little autonomy I had. One moment we were at the nail salon, the next at my grandma’s house. I remember transforming spaces in my mind so much I could almost feel the heat from the lava that was once floor. I was secondary. Small details were free to hyper-fixate on, and I certainly wasn’t allowed control over what my sister and I watched on TV. We’d seen Grease so much, it practically became a permanent blurred backdrop to my Tamagotchi. I was secondary to t

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