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***Wanderlust***

I was asked to do a series of images taking visitors through the journey of my own story told with the theme Wanderlust. This is my interpretation. My journey of mind, self-discovery, the daily fight to overcome the fear of my current state of fragility.

 

This series has me with a broken bulb as a head and a brain full of moths. Two images have me alone wandering at dusk using the light play with moths casting shadows blocking my faint glow. In the last image, I am fearlessly standing behind my shield (Camera) facing a bear (Covid)

 

I don't know if any of you can understand that when I hold my camera in RL I am fearless. I am confident, focused, and excited. I feel alive! I would wake excited to relive those moments as I fumbled to retrieve my SD card from my Nikon. Photography was a daily high. I miss it so much. I miss people and gatherings. I miss seeing my friends, my family. I miss seeing smiles. It's a deep ache that won't go away and it scares me.

 

Seems I was so busy trying not to die from Covid that I stopped doing the things that made me feel alive.

 

LISTEN

 

Is everybody lonely?

Is everybody scared?

Is everybody worried

That no one really cares?

See I'm afraid to love, but afraid to be alone

Still I wonder why my heart is always broke

What a way to live, let the fear take all control

Oh, this ain't life, no

I'm not alive

Are we all the same?

Looking for love, looking for love

Are we all in chains?

Trying to be enough, be enough

I'm trying to write my perfect story

I'm working nights, I'm working days

To prove the world that I am worthy

Of being seen, of being praised

'Cause I'm afraid to show the people who I am

I'm not special, I'm just a simple broken human

SO I WILL HIDE MY FACE WITH MY PICTURE-PERFECT MASK

Oh, this ain't life, no

It's just a lie

Are we all the same?

Looking for love, looking for love

Are we all in chains?

Trying to be enough, be enough

Woah ah

If I looked you in the eye

And showed the broken things inside

Would you run away?

Would you run away?

Woah ah

If you saw my darkest parts

The wicked things inside my heart

Would you run away?

Or are you the same?

 

Thanks so much to Ella Pavlona for including me ♥

I am honored to have again been invited to join this project displayed at Mindful Cove.

 

 

 

 

Art as Mindfulness: Wanderlust

 

20.02.2022 - 27.03.2022

 

@ Mindful Cove

 

 

 

Opening Event : 20.02.2022 @ 6 a.m. SLT

 

 

TAXI

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