Do ghosts feel jealous if you miss the living ones more than them?
Graduation project at Royal College of Art, London
(2022 - ongoing).
Medium: Photography, writing, performance, film, print,
installation.
The Idea
This project decodes my minute emotional gestures around the dissonance between absence and presence, while longing for people I have loved and lost.
It explores the haunting pull of unrequited love and grief, and the ways memory keeps the dead alive in the living.
What It Examines
- Unresolved emotions and imagined conversations
- Abandonment, rejection, and fear
- Grief, mourning, and longing
- Hauntology and inner child work
- Therapy, healing, and catharsis
Forms
- Photography and photo-text
- Writing and journaling
- Performance and film
- Print and installation
Why It Matters
Love and death are not opposites - they are entangled. This work gives language to the rituals we perform with memory, and the private negotiations we make with absence.
It is a study in how we keep speaking to those who cannot answer.