Covalescence, a docu fiction.

My artistic practice began when I was ten, after my father died. I was not living in the UK then, and photography was not yet part of my life. Writing became my first way of navigating the silence and disorientation of grief — an early encounter with the threshold between mourning and recovery. In 2012 I moved to the UK as an adult. Over time, the Peak District became central to my practice. Its quiet expanses and suspended atmosphere resonated with the emotional landscape I had known as a child. During the pandemic, I travelled to Eyam. The village’s history of self‑imposed isolation echoed both the collective experience of COVID and the earlier threshold that shaped me. In Eyam, I recognised a continuity with that formative moment, and the landscape offered a renewed sense of solace and clarity. This project honours the Peak District and the UK as places where grief, healing, and artistic development intersect for me . The work explores convalescence as a state of reorganisation — a space where illness, memory, and transformation overlap. Through photography, I trace how personal and collective histories meet in landscape, and how returning to a familiar emotional architecture can open new forms of understanding and resilience.