Asking for the Sun

This photographic essay approaches the feeling of a Nostalgia for the present. The reference to this term stems from the state of being helplessly confronted with one's own disorientation within the here and now. I spend more time reflecting on what was then on what is or what could be. This emotional state is fluctuating and by no means continuous, since the sensitivity of nostalgic feelings, in part, also depends on the circumstances of the present. My nostalgic feelings apply to a time of carelessness and being alone in a foreign country, they are dedicated to what is experienced but also to memories that were never experienced themselves but could have been made. To chase the feeling of experiencing a time again which has not yet passed, in the same way is a futile endeavour, to put together memories that one never experienced is purely imaginative. Most of the photographic works are neither time nor place bound, as this essay unfolds in its emotional layers of Images that are used as verses are used in poetry. Working together, circling around each other, building up a narrative to let us do the most existential thing humans can do: to feel something.