After Kytice
In the summer of 2005, my parents bought a house in a small village in North Bohemia, Czech Republic. Since then, I’ve spent many holidays there. It has become a second home, yet always slightly distant. It is a place I cherish, but never fully understood.
After two decades, I return without seeing the village only as a holiday destination, but as a community where life goes on, regardless of my presence or absence. In search of my connection to this place, I rediscover the landscape and get to know the local residents in a way I never did 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 Karel Jaromír Erben’s poetry collection Kytice (1853), the project connects folklore, personal memories, and present-day observations, bouncing between myth and reality.
