Zérkalo (Patreon)

My greatgrandmother lived in the ground floor of my house all her life.  I was just three when my grandfather and my greatgrandmother passed away. Mother and son died in the same year very few months away from each other. After such tragedy, my grand mother was never the same again. She from that moment on, she left her life go out, metaphorically speaking, her own house was falling apart as she her life was too.
I remember being a child, that house thrilled me and scared me in equal shares.. The place was really dark and damp. The dim light gave me a glimpse of the curtains, abandoned dishes and glasses in some lousy cupboard and tons of dust laying there for decades.
The room where i take pictures has always been my favorite place in the house, I adore the decadence that time has impregnated in this place. I love the blue in the walls that falls into green pieces. I love the humidity brought by the wind that blows from the nearby sea.
It took me a great effort to open that window. Maybe nobody had opened it for 30 years or so but i needed some ray of natural light in my set.  At the time I was taking the picture, i didn't realize about the touch of tarkovsky in the images my camera was taking, specially his film Zérkalo, so beautifull and nostalgic!
But if you pay attention carefully, the texture, the colours and the desolation of the scene brings you back Margarita Terekhova when everything collapses around her. Why not? that scene could have been filmed in that room.