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.
Work in progress — Abodid is currently adding the selected images, research paper and project material to this page.
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.