The breakdown of a relationship is a pretty brutal thing. It floors you. It makes you question your self worth, your value to the world. It makes you sad and it makes you ever so lonely. My last 52 week project didn’t ever get finished because of what happened in my relationship with Soph. It’s been nearly 8 months now but life is still not back to normal. We parted still loving each other, but there had been so much damage along the way that it was impossible to reconcile that and we both accepted it (eventually). We still talk every now and then and in time, we will become friends; It’s not possible to spend so much of your life together and not have a friend for life. But for now, we’re both getting on with our lives and trying to sort ourselves out.

My motivation to take photographs, especially self portraits has waned but this is something that I need to start again. It gives me something to think about during the week, something to fill my ever-thinking mind. It’s catharsis and it needs to be done. I think the first few weeks of the project might be a little ‘emo’, but I think with time, I’ll get my humour back again. I’ll be back from the dead and I’ll hopefully make you smile or giggle. And hopefully, I’ll smear myself in high fructose corn syrup at some point again.

But for now, bear with me and we’ll get this train on the tracks again.