It Will Feel Better When It Stops Hurting
by Avery Tucker
My series It Will Feel Better When It Stops Hurting explores the ways divorce alters childhood, memory, and development. These photographs show my half-sister Tuscany on my father’s land. Sometimes they are posed; sometimes they are not. In this project, I explore the connection between our experiences as children of divorce, how our memories and understandings differ. I use the landscape images as a representation of myself and as a meditation on what the future holds. The title comes from an expression my father would say when I scraped my knees or fell off my bike, but in the context of this project, it has transformed into an examination of pain and healing. Will it ever feel better? Does it ever stop hurting?
