My graduation project grew out of two different personal starting points:

The first, I was born with Synesthesia, a neurological phenomenon in
which the senses blend. Among other things, it makes my sensory memory
especially strong and sensitive. The second, on 7.10.2023 I was at the
Nova festival, and I survived.
Because of this, I live today with post-traumatic stress.
8 months after Nova, my boyfriend and I (at the time of Nova we
had been together for only two months) flew to Thailand and Japan.
The trip was healing, and different. It created memories that were
etched deep into my sensory consciousness. More than anything,
it opened the way to a deep insight: for the first time in my life,
Synesthesia was serving me as a tool for regulation. Through it,
through the senses of smell, hearing and taste, and the memories
formed between them, I can take myself on journeys through time
whenever I feel the need, so that I can cope better with the here and
now. From the moment of that realization, the rest was history.
I documented everything that moved or didn't move, every sense,
feeling and memory. The guiding principle that mattered most to me at
the start of the project was to speak about the day after,
from an intimate, exposed and sometimes abstract place,
and not about the event itself as a news event.