Worried Standing Still is a series of images made due to a strong emotional impulse while traveling through Ukraine alone, and the days before and after my trip. I was highly aware of my solitude, the intense opportunity to step foot on land that my parents never returned to, and the volatility of Ukraine’s freedom. These spaces, charged with introspection and personal longing, were captured with a medium format film camera. Waiting for the film development, scanning negatives, and the digital post processing and printing is my time-based photographic performance. The waiting time during film development allows me to dismiss prior emotional connection to the space, in order to clear my head and create the image titles that intimate my intuitive, and perhaps illogical, reasons for releasing the shutter at a given moment.