STAR CROSSED
First love can feel mythological. Romeo and Juliet, Cleopatra anb Mark Antony, Odysseus and Penelope. In finding a kindred spirit, the heavens seems to open up, align, and we are thrusted into a story as old as humanity, connected to what it means to be alive.
However, this story is fabricated. The reality of love is far more complicated than passion and romance. Though the planets seem to align when we meet our match, it takes far more to maintain a relationship.
This piece was a gift for my first love, a visual representation of the sacredness of our relationship. After our breakup, I don’t know what’s become of it, as I don’t know what’s really become of us. But just how our love still exists in memory, this piece still exists in photography.