That’s no way to say goodbye

Every Ukrainian village has a small hut, a remote little hovel with an old woman living there in solitude. Not because she has no family – rather, she made a conscious choice to live in the place she has called home all her life. Every one of those old ladies is like a guardian in a museum of their life, and as days pass, they vigilantly guard the relics of their memories and unique interiors, and those memories shall live on – but only as long as they do.

They will not let go of this way of life, as even a hundred years of tribulations is nothing but great treasure to them, someone only the chosen ones are allowed to lay their eyes upon. But if you do get the special invitation, and you delve into the very core of that world, having earned the guardian’s trust, you find yourself consumed whole by a whirl of amazing stories, all of which deserve to be perpetuated on film. These stories make you think of the fluidity of life. And after you’ve felt that, there’s no way back anymore, no way to say ‘goodbye’, as you have already merged with those memories and become part of them…

This project is a tribute to my grandmother
Glyba Nella Vasylivna