Once upon a time, a girl went out into the world to spread colour. She started with a small spot and watched it grow. While she was radiating pink and yellow and turquoise, she was hiding dark spots inside.
Everybody thought she was brave and happy, but inside her heart, she had harboured dark spots since she was a kid. She had the ability to see the bright in the dark, which was her talent and her curse as well. It made her fly; it made her fall. She was often hurt for running after a bright spot and ending up being eaten up by darkness. But no matter where and how she was, she made people happy even when she was sad. If she could just overcome the difficulties to cheer herself up…
All her efforts to make her inside as bright as her outside didn’t work. She struggled. But then something extraordinary happened: She found somebody who challenged her yet gave her the feeling of freedom she never knew. She stopped to care about a lot of things and just lived.
She laughed while her hair was messy and gave up caring about her own imperfections. Her focus switched from the outside to the inside.
All of this happened because she was shown to be enough, just like she was. She didn’t need to be art all the time. It was fine just to be the tiny little self when all the spotlights turned off, and vulnerability appeared. It was fine not to be perfect, not to be beautiful, not to be especially charming.
Thank you, whoever showed that girl what she couldn’t have found alone. A kind mirror to look at herself.
My outfit:
All Clothes by Maya Seyferth, Earrings: House of Holland,
Sunglasses: Tatty Devine
Hat: Maison Julie
Pictures: Parinya Wongwannawat / Nick Soland
Animation: Chantal Caduff
Location: Wow Museum Zurich
