Melancolía is an on-going project, in which I explore ideas of nostalgia, melancholy, and longing. It feeds from the rhetorical question Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt, (from Latin: Where are those who were before us?).  This question speaks of the passing of time, the ephemeral quality that life possess. In this work, it is represented by the imagery of chairs in the everyday spaces across Europe, taken over the formative years of my early adulthood, which draws a connection to these themes by reflecting on the philosophical connotations that an empty chair is embedded with, our nostalgia for a pre-Brexit European ideal of connection, and the more universal, humanist metaphors of the journeys that shape us. 

The work has become my graduation project, crystalising into a book, in which I develop this narrative, by using text, self-portraiture, and photographs of lonely chairs which I have encountered in the last five years.