We Are Such Stuff That Dreams Are Made On is a tender exploration of first love and the hopes I held as a young gay teenager beginning to understand my sexuality. Created in collaboration with my boyfriend at the time, the project reimagines the dreams I once had about love - shaped as much by fantasy as by a longing for belonging.
The title is taken from a line I performed in a school play, a moment that now feels like a quiet prophecy. In the images, golden light and soft, bloomed highlights construct a dreamlike atmosphere - evoking the warmth, fragility, and unreality of queer yearning in its earliest form. These photographs don't just document a relationship; they perform the kind of love story I once imagined but never thought I’d get to live.
This work is both personal and performative, a reflection on the way young queer people often dream their way into adulthood - conjuring futures from fragments of theatre, cinema, and imagined intimacy. It is about love as projection, as performance, and as a precious reality that, for a time, felt just close enough to touch.