Bio

(2017- ongoing)

I’ve always wondered how my biological parents looked like. This need to know their faces, has crossed my mind unnumbered times. As a child, I always knew my mother gave birth to me, trough her heart, not her body. And that the stubbornness and wilderness, was something I got from my father. I grew up, always aware of the fact that I was adopted.

In the fall of 2017 I gave birth to my firstborn. It made me realize that he was actually the first person, in the whole wide world - which I knew of - that looked like me. I remember when the midwife came to my bed at the hospital, showing me my boy for the first time.
Something inside me just fell into place. “It’s me!”. His big brown button-eyes, his black hair and flat nose. I could see myself in everything. This was the beginning of my now ongoing project. Bio.

Being adopted is so individually, becoming a parent is too. Who and what you identify yourself with can be so different to what other people might identify themselves with, and the individuality in that can be as wide, as there is people on this earth.
Seeing myself in my own child, is bigger than anything I’ve ever felt. Ever. One thing is certain, something inside me fell into place and I felt I was at least one person less alone in this world. It’s almost impossible to describe.

But this project, with the story of others and my own, I am going to try.