Grace Secor

woodwings (2026)

*all photos taken with Nikon camera and then manually mirrored

Mother Nature loves mimicking herself. The photos in this collection were taken in the woods and then manually mirrored to reveal outlines of wings, antlers, sea creatures, etc. The more you use your imagination, the more you see.

go back in time, but no one will be there (2015-2025)

*all photos taken with Nikon camera

From the ages of 13 to 23, I took these photos at pivotal locations in my childhood. They all contain amorphous shapes achieved through camera techniques used to visually represent how memory is often distorted.

poetry collection: metallic menagerie, an ode to growing up (2019-2026)

A menagerie, an enclosure meant to trap kidnapped animals so that their kidnapper can force them to perform. As a child actor who was subject to male teachers’ attempts to define me from the age of 14, I often felt like I was in a menagerie of my own. Recently, I’ve been deconstructing a lot of those external definitions assigned to me. Each of these poems speaks on themes I encountered from ages 17 to 23: tenacity, melancholy, joy, grief, heartbreak, appeasement, etc.