After Kytice
In the summer of 2005, my parents bought an old farm in a small village in North Bohemia, Czech Republic. Since then, I’ve spent many holidays there. It has become my second home, yet at the same time a world I’ve never fully understood.
After two decades, I returned; not just to see it as a holiday destination, but as a community where life continues regardless of my presence or absence. In search of my connection to this place, I’m rediscovering the landscape and getting to know the local residents in ways I never considered as an outsider.
After Kytice explores the rhythms of the Czech countryside, where seasonal rituals and traces of the past live on in both nature and people. Inspired by Kytice (1853), a poetry collection by Czech writer Karel Jaromír Erben, the project weaves together folklore, personal memories, and present-day observations, bouncing between myth and reality.
