i know i don’t say it often enough but i love you

a senior thesis submitted to the department of art, art history, and film at boston college in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a degree of bachelor of arts

What do you do with all of the love you don’t know how to express? My senior thesis examines the intricacies of family relationships bound by love unspoken but found abundantly in action. This is what I have learned about love from the people who have loved me every day that I have been alive, and from the love I have for those people. And, this is my reminder—to myself, but also to them—that love is always there, even if we struggle to express it.

Here is my life—the home I grew up in, the person I have grown into, the people who raised me. And here it is, stripped raw.