BROKEN FLOWERS

This work reflects on a deep and important love, and explores the transformative influence of relationships on people’s lives. The project narrates a deeply personal story, in which universal themes as love, loss, grieving and growing up are shown through.

Ronald and I met in a club in 2006 when we were in our early twenties. From that moment on we were inseparable and in 2008 we decided to travel across Africa in an old Landrover. A month after returning home Ronald's eldest brother committed suicide. We lost our youthful innocence in one fell swoop. After a tumultuous eight years, various big roadtrips, and countless attempts to fix our love, we finally broke up in 2016 while trying to reach India by car.

Now, five years later, I look back on the material I made and collected, a treasury of tangible and intangible memories. Without chronology and in an associative way I depict our love story as it is stored in my brain; disjointed fragments revealing the effects of loss and grieving on love.