For me, it’s hard now not to look at that photo and see a 14-year-old girl, unaware of how that single moment will shape her entire life. She’ll become a public

For me, it’s hard now not to look at that photo and see a 14-year-old girl, unaware of how that single moment will shape her entire life. She’ll become a public figure — as a minor — with no consent and no control over her image or her reputation. And yet, she eventually defied the narrative that was written for her. She built a new life on her own terms. Far from the public glare that defined her as someone she never was, she’s now who she wants to be: someone whose life is both private and purposeful. It is, at least to some degree, a piece about issues alive today and amplified by the internet, social media, a larger world population, faster modes of transit, etc. The world has grown both larger and smaller at the same time and it will be some future generation that perhaps figures out how to deal with all this, while perhaps being caught flat-footed by their own current developments.