After the immense loss of love, one is left bare before their own inner self. There is only the body—fragile, hunched, closed in on itself, seeking solace in a place where another person no longer exists.
This diptych is a record of an intimate journey—a return to oneself after the dissolution of a relationship, after departure, after an emptiness that cannot easily be filled. A curled-up silhouette, the tense line of the back, a hand touching its own skin—gestures that express both pain and the gradual process of embracing solitude. In these moments of silence, when the external world fades into insignificance, the healing begins.
The interplay of light and shadow highlights the ambiguity of this experience—suffering intertwines with relief, loss with rediscovery, emptiness with the slow construction of a new kind of closeness—this time, with oneself.
It is a story of the body as the final refuge of the soul. A reminder that after loss, tenderness can still be found—within oneself, in breath, in the simple act of being. Because true solace is not found outside, but in the deepest corners of one’s own existence.

Kamila J Gruss
02.02.2025 Słupsk