Cocoon

Cocoon is an attempt to document my state of mind during the Pandemic.
During the Lockdowns I went into Self-Isolation quite often. Which meant being alone in my apartement for the whole time.

I began to document my days during the first lockdown in 2020. 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 in my hometown.

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 an ongoing collection of moments in my life that challenged my perception of it.