If Nick Bantock and Ralph Steadman were teenaged girls who kept scrapbook diaries, Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself would be the result. California-based photographer Sabrina Ward Harrison pours the world of adolescent angst into busy collage-filled pages featuring her own photos, drawings, and thoughts, along with words of wisdom from the quote-worthy likes of May Sarton and Rainer Maria Rilke. As Harrison searches for self-acceptance, a positive body image, and a place in the world, the repetitive self-obsessed woes of adolescence begin to wear thin – unless of course you’re experiencing growing pains too. Thankfully, the handwritten text is accompanied by sustaining bursts of colour.
Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself