Insula

Insula is the lost island of childhood. With my camera, I capture the process of growing up of my children and the invisible border that arises between us. Children build their own world, I learn to let go and to accept. In this process I relive my own period of growing up, in which a significant place was occupied by the experience of the absence of boundaries, subjectively perceived then as the absence of love. Landscape — the territory where children live and grow up, acts as a separate character in the project and plays an important role. This is the island that children are mastering, gradually expanding the boundaries. Parental love is the whole world and its boundaries for a very young child. For a teenager, boundaries are a way to try out, go beyond and see that the possibilities are limitless. The task of parents is to learn to let go, providing exactly as much freedom as is necessary now. Black and white photographs are stories about children, about their journey and the study of life in contours of parental love. The coloured ones are personal colourful memories of my own childhood island.