DISTRESS
DISTRESS is a series that was created out of restlessness and inexplicable misery. As a desperate attempt to capture the essence of how I felt, I started taking photos that didn't aim to please but make the viewer feel uneasy.
The first photo 'ashtray' was taken on the 1st of June 2022, not even a month before I collapsed, went to the ER, got hospitalised and within a few days diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
As I started working on this series, I had no idea what was happening with me, and never would I have expected something as drastic as MS. But I felt something was wrong, something was building up that made me feel extremely uneasy, physically, emotionally and mentally. So I expressed my distress with photos.
In the comfort of knowing the cause for my distress I continued and finished this series 1,5 years later. However I have to say, I would have liked this story to end differently. To find an actual solution for my distress instead of just the cause with no other option than to get used to and learn to live with it. But life plays by its own rules, I guess.
