Cocoon

Cocoon was an attempt to document my state of mind during the Pandemic..

I began to document my days during the first lockdowns in 2020 which I spent all by myself in my appartment in Berlin. During that process photography became a tool for me to hold on to this contradictory and difficult time and to be able to grasp it. It helped me in a way to trace my feelings and thoughts and to organize them. With the progression of the pandemic, life progressed in an unexpected way. The most traumatic experience was the fear for the life of my mother, who was diagnosed with Covid, when there was no vaccination on the horizon. She was fighting for her life in a hospital and still suffers from Long Covid.

As time goes by new experiences - such as a ten day period in an Quarantine Hotel in Norway - and the unvocanal reality becomes normal. This is was an ongoing collection of moments in my life that challenged my perception of life.