Endboards

Endboards explores the physical and emotional weight of growing up through the fragility of cyanotype. The project consists of nine cyanotype prints drawn from my childhood and a hockey stick from my final year playing in high school. Printed directly onto the blade of that stick is a cyanotype image of myself as a child learning the game. Together, these objects form a dialogue between who I was and who I became, forming a container of my life thus far.

The images feel archival yet unstable, fixed in chemistry but softened by time. Memory operates the same way. It preserves moments while quietly altering them. The hockey stick functions as both artifact and anchor. It carries the physical wear of competition, practice, and repetition. By placing my childhood image onto the blade, the part of the stick that makes contact, that scores, that fails, it makes me who I am today. The object that marked the end of my athletic chapter now holds the beginning. It becomes less about sport and more about continuity, pressure, expectation, and identity.

The nine prints expand this narrative, offering fragments rather than a complete archive. They are not meant to reconstruct childhood in full, but to suggest how selective memory can be. This project is ultimately about inheritance, not what is passed down to us, but what we pass forward from our own past.