“In the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write?”Rilke Simone de Beauvoir once wrote: “What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”Why wasn’t I writing? Maybe I was afraid of putting it all down on paper, of acknowledging the […]
Photographs and journals from July to December 2022 Tonight I dreamt I was back in L.A.I was there, but I wasn’t exactly me — more like a younger version of myself, though not entirely.I was also who I am now. I was both at once. I was carrying the wisdom and experience of today, and […]
Pictures from January to June 2022 I like to reconcile past and present. I love to look at the pictures from many yesterdays and think hard, transporting myself back — trying to remember what I was feeling when those shots were taken. I look at the whole landscape with a wiser lens, connecting dots.It gives […]
– So what happened to her? – She kept on sleeping for the longest time. Resting up, gathering strength… until hopefully something someday would wake her up. Knock, knock.
Photographs from January to June 2021. “No one expected me. Everything awaited me.” It happened so slowly she didn’t know how or when it started. One day she simply turned her head to look back and she was able to see what a long way she’d come. Then she looked forward to see with excitement […]
“There is no perfection only life” M.K. Photographs from July to December 2020 Writing about this moment is like trying to describe what summer feels like during a very long and cold winter. 15 months of winter… and counting. Warm memories are now so distant it seems pointless, almost cruel to remember.It only keeps getting colder with a […]
Photo Journals January to June 2020 There’s a little girl I talk to sometimes.She sits across from me, and I tell her about the things I do. She listens, always hungry for stories. To me it’s just life, but to her, it sounds just like a dream. Like the movies she watches alone, and the […]
How does it feel? Photographs from September to December 2019 I can see now I always had a fascination for faces and stories. Some of my earliest memories are those of going through albums and boxes of pictures. Sometimes with my mother or father by my side passionately sharing the stories those images evoked in […]
New York, August 2019. “That wasn’t much fun, but I had my mantra, “I’m free,I’m free.” Patti Smith. I can’t think of a greater feeling than walking alone the streets of a city where nobody knows you. That feeling, I think it’s freedom. I went to New York in August 2019 to get a break. […]
“There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.” The fear and anticipation of loss can be much more painful than the loss itself. That’s what I’ve learned.An ending brings relief, takes away all the worrying, the what-ifs, the anxiety. No more stress. You feel both sad and calm, knowing now that the real […]