Photograph 004 · Original ArchiveStockholm · February 2011

Asking for help

We can be saved. But sometimes, first, we have to find a way to ask for help.

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A frost-covered lifebuoy beside the water in Stockholm, lit by golden morning light
Stockholm — February 2011 · Photograph © Andrea Morel · Personal archive
Interpretation

Stockholm. It was around ten in the morning and bitterly cold. Mist was rising from the water while an almost golden light crossed the canal.

In the middle of that cold, a lifebuoy.

It is a simple object, placed there for an emergency. Yet looking at it now, it seems to tell me something more.

We can be saved. But sometimes, first, we have to find a way to ask for help.

The lifebuoy can be there, only a few centimetres away. We still have to decide to reach for it.

THREAD · CHANGING SELVES

Asking for help changes the person who asks.

It is not surrender. It is the moment we stop having to carry everything alone.

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