ABOUT

A photograph of Leah Williams. Leah is wearing round wire-frame glasses, a blue cotton crewneck sweatshirt and a grey hat.

This website is an archive of Instagram content from 2016-2020 from @lifemadelight. Life Made Light is a completed project by Leah Williams that explored social media as a medium for communication and activism.

Life Made Light was my first exploration into writing online for public consumption. During this time, most active from 2016-2018, I wrote about the experience of trying to bridge the gap between your held values and how these values can be translated into tangible action within your life.

My content included actionable strategies to help reduce personal environmental impact and new ways of thinking to help create lasting habits within your own life. Within this time, I made many lifestyle changes (some of which were lasting, and others more temporary) that reflected what I learned as I tried to live “zero waste”. Minimalism informed much of my decision making at this time. I also wrote about the environmental and social impacts of fast fashion, and the emotional process of letting go.

This period of time led me closer to my values. It revealed connections between our internal and external worlds, and ultimately brought me to the realization that social media was not a medium I desired to give further attention.

I opened Fold and Fray in 2020.

You can follow my current work at www.leahwilliams.world.

Leah Williams