There Were Too Many Steps

"There Were Too Many Steps" is a collection of images spanning a decade in the same London flat.

This is a project of separation from a home that is connected to the death of a parent. It is a process of going through motions of loss in a measured way, unfolding mourning with a controlled timeline. Being able to touch a surface, the skin of a place, is a futile attempt to make up for the ways that life is unexpected and aggressive. 

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The flat belonged to my father and was left to me when he died in my early 20s. Years later, I moved into it with my husband and we lived in it  for 10 years. Our son was born while we lived there, and his transformation into a toddler became the catalyst for moving out. As the loss of my father had happened suddenly and joltingly, the departure from the flat had to be gentle and delicate, a thought out separation from a physical place that had become a substitute for a parent.

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