CHRYSANTHEMUM

CHRYSANTHEMUM

Before the white chrysanthemum

the scissors hesitate a moment  (Yosa Buson)

A poem once touched me with a simple truth: even death pauses before the beauty of life. It made me realize what stops time for me — my children, the most fragile and tender beauty I know. Childhood became, in my mind, a fleeting flower that one day will be cut.

My eldest son is eleven, standing between boyhood and adolescence. Sometimes I see in his eyes a soft adult sadness — the first quiet touch of growing up.

I remember my own childhood light — not just illumination, but a living companion that guided me. Its gradual departure leaves a trace of melancholy, yet returns when the soul is ready.

This project is about childhood as a home of light, and about the first steps away from it — that delicate moment when innocence begins to shift and time holds its breath.

Credits

photography Eugenia Brodsky

starring Shyka Brodskyi, Hugo Brodskyi

produced by innerG