"The Wildflowers that Lead Me Home" is a project which explores personal notions of home, time, place, belonging, identity, childhood, nostalgia, memory, and faith. In order to portray this, the project creates a visual narrative through the documentation of places and spaces of connection in Poland, archival images, and text in the form of self-reflection and poetry.

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The project also brings attention to spaces that appear overlooked and forgotten in their ordinary simplicity and humbleness, through which the wildflowers are a metaphor. The sense of belonging one feels to particular places is sometimes entwined both with a sense of peace and happiness but also a sentimental longing. These notions are explored through reflections and relation to faith and symbolism.

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Consisting of black and white photographs featuring spaces, landscapes, portraits as well as self-portraiture and text, the project is presented in an A5-hardcover handmade photobook inside a black cloth-covered box featuring an ear of wheat from Poland. The materials consist of printed canvas fabric, matte paper as well as ribbon and bookbinding headband details. The physical interaction with the book creates an intimate and sensitive relationship with the narrative. Real laminated wildflowers picked from a Polish village field are a staple piece featured within the photobook; they form a physical materialistic connection; a relic of time, memory, nostalgia, and hope.

 

The Wildflowers that Lead Me Home (2021)