In the series Flash Bang Pow, of which Snap is a part, my own internal emotions and observations are shown by manifesting them as a sheen on the image in the form of additive material manipulations, which leaves a fragment of myself on top of the capture. By altering negatives post-shooting through a variety of media, intense self-reflections - or rather, what I was, personally, experiencing while creating the photograph - can be seen in the material world, and begin to speak in broader terms than my own singular viewpoint. Through translating these thoughts via alterations on the surface of a negative or print, they may become recognizable to the observer, and expand to encompass and normalize emotion and personal occurrences people rarely choose to disclose to others. It was necessary that the negatives were themselves directly impacted without the aid of digital altering, in order to physically and permanently imprint each capture with the thoughts associated.