The Longing of the Oracle, 2024

An analogue photography journal documenting each meditative writing ritual during the year 2023-2024.

This project arose from my thesis, "Endingbeginning", at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, where I explored the concept of longing and the figure of the Pythia, the Oracle of ancient Greece. Her longing serves as a guiding light, illuminating the mysteries beyond time and space. Her story, like this collection, is woven with endless threads.

We open a dialogue with the Air, the fifth element, the very essence that connects us. We attune ourselves to the messages of the Faery Queens, those otherworldly protectors of nature who whisper songs of renewal to the winds. To free the Oracle is to address the walls holding Her captive and create a vessel for Her voice. The Faery Queens whisper in poetry, a language of multidimensional seeing.

Each Writual is unique, a key to unlock the Oracle's many longings, guiding us towards Her liberation. The key lies in the interplay between the inner and the outer. We listen to the secret messages of the ivy clinging to the cracks, to the stories echoing from the well of time. This is a manuscript waiting to be written, woven from wisdom gleaned from the depths of our being.