Stand Still; Fig Leaves

The project explores the relationship between memories and a place in London which represents home to me, through intimate self-portraits shot against brutal yet sublime landscape.

I respond to the surrounding environment, spontaneously reflecting my thoughts and feelings of a moment through performance, where a camera becomes my only companion. The body performs in the landscape and portrays the feeling of being trapped. Triggered memories from childhood result in a theoretical reaction to disconnection. This place projects tranquillity and the fig tree growing nearby ties in my memories to this place.

Growing up, I often felt the need to fit in and the fig tree throughout the years was always a reminder of belonging. My work is concerned with the ideas of home in the eyes of a child in comparison to adulthood.

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Photo Journal by Evelina Sarupiciute.