Welcome

My name is Lucy Mathews Heegaard.

I combine writing, photography, digital collage, sound, and video to tell stories that are an invitation to self-reflection. Encouraging us to consider who we are before we are shaped and shifted by life events, my work is centered around the human voice⏤people sharing first-hand experiences from their lives.

By using multiple forms of media, my stories engage multiple senses at once, offering the viewer an immersive, intimate, visceral experience of the story, beyond what any one element might conjure on its own.

I hope the practice of honest self-reflection leads us to compassion and care for ourselves, for one another, and for this world we inhabit together.

who are we before the world tells us who we ought to be?

Or, in the vocabulary of Buddhism, what is your Original Face, the face you had before your parents were born?