Inspired by my daily life as a full-time mother to a toddler, the project ‘The Last Drop Makes the Cup Run Over’ was a mirror of my mental state of mind after becoming a parent, illustrating through photomontages of nature photography the overwhelming feelings arising from occasional frustration, sensory overload, sleep deprivation, emotional meltdowns, and increased stress level caused by being a parent of a young child.

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Raising a toddler can be a bittersweet experience, often leaving the parent exhausted, unable to focus, feeling extremely irritated, frustrated and off-balance, and reaching a burnout. Such feelings can be caused by sensory overstimulation, reaching the neurological threshold of one or more senses. When constantly being triggered to the point the last drop makes the cup run over, our true identity and inner peace are hijacked by flight-or-fight reflexes. Using photography as a therapy to regain balance in life, this project is a projection of motherhood emotional struggles which are presented through images of the natural world, depicting intense emotions sublimated into digital photomontages consisting of digital photographic and pinhole images.