My photographic practice uses self-portraits to express emotions to the viewer as a way of healing. Exhaustion, 2024 focuses on sleep deprivation that I had been experiencing for the past year. In the development of these van dyke brown prints I am exhausting the fixer to manipulate the surface of the print as a further extension of this. The layering of exhaustion through my body and the print's surface expresses the weight of this fatigue.