Beneath the Light - Digital

Digital copy of Beneath the Light by Laura Lewis-Waters

“I squeeze myself in places I never want to see with everything that I have in the hopes that I can squeeze myself back together in places I don’t understand, and perhaps if I squeeze hard enough, I will escape the black holes”

Beneath the Light is a collection centered on traumatic birth scenarios and navigating the aftermath. Lewis-Waters flawlessly meshes the disparity and cross-section of the anxiety and grief of trauma recovery with the joy and comfort found in motherhood. This work is raw, honest, and entirely unafraid of the messy and uncomfortable sides that are often buried and forgotten in the act of beauty.