The Love We Carry highlights the bond between two lovers in a world driven by instant gratification and fleeting viral moments. Through both joy and struggle, they carry one another, choosing presence over distraction. It honors the beauty of a connection worth early-morning conversations and quiet understanding. Have we truly experienced love if we have never slowed down long enough to dance together? If we have never been held on the days when our mental health felt heavy?
The Love We Carry offers a glimpse of Black love, a tender, intentional joy that lingers and leaves us wanting more.
The inspiration behind The Love We Carry is rooted in intentional, enduring love in a fast-moving world. It draws from connections that value depth over distraction and presence over performance. In a culture shaped by instant gratification and viral moments, the piece turns toward quieter expressions of love, early-morning conversations, slow dancing, emotional safety, and showing up on difficult mental health days.It is also inspired by Black love as something soft, sacred, and resilient. Not only surviving, but thriving through tenderness and mutual care. At its core, the work asks what love looks like when it is chosen daily, unhurried, and deeply felt.
As a young woman who battles with feeling loved and secure within herself. Sometimes it is hard for me to be fully present in my love life. This visual shapes that, all though love may come there are moments where I overthink and lose myself in the process of falling in love. There are days where I have bad dreams and long drawn out thoughts that stem from mental health issues. From the outside I may look like I have it all together but there are hints of self doubt and sadness within my story. The Love We Carry is the beginning of my journey into the film world. This mini project test my ability and trust within myself. It showed me that an idea in my mind can be brought to fruition and I pray that the journey continues.
