I saw a mother and two girls in their front yard. From my seat on the bus driving by, I made up a story for them, and thought about the absurdity of it, these glimpses of lives that aren’t connected to my own; that at any time I could be witness to a pivotal moment in someone else’s life, and never know. I feel a heaviness in having been witness to the intimacies of their private lives.
There is something special about capturing just the right expression, to see something in a face that they don’t see, gravitas, melancholy, joy, and passion. It is a moment of connection between them, the light, and me.
Det som du er, er jeg også is an ode to family, to the strangeness and wonder in the quotidian, and the tenderness of it all.
