We Vielen Met De Sterren

Here goes nothing, I honestly have my doubts on writing out the detailed story behind We Vielen Met De Sterren as its intensely personal. At its core I guess it's about falling both in and out of love, but it ended up incapsulating so much more than that. From what I recall it was early summer, we were supposed to meet but both ended up solo-backpacking a lot all over the world. Eventually in between travels we found a short moment for each other, floating around in a cheap inflatable boat on th...

Here goes nothing, I honestly have my doubts on writing out the detailed story behind We Vielen Met De Sterren as its intensely personal. At its core I guess it's about falling both in and out of love, but it ended up incapsulating so much more than that. From what I recall it was early summer, we were supposed to meet but both ended up solo-backpacking a lot all over the world. Eventually in between travels we found a short moment for each other, floating around in a cheap inflatable boat on the river in my hometown in Ghent. The rest became history, we fell (with the stars). Unfortunately, it was a brutally intense sort of passion, connection, whatever you want to call it. As quickly as we fell for each other, we also fell away from each other. I still often reflect on this. Interestingly enough, through it all, I don't think we would've been good for each other in the long term. But that doesn't take away that I still look back at some of the moments we shared as some of the most beautiful ones in my life. It's also a time and place kind of thing. I have a strong tendency to witness the world very rationally, it's my way of making sense of everything and progressing through life. At that point in life, after years of strongly going in my ratio, I allowed myself to "feel" again. I was also at a point in life where I had more freedom, and I might not even have properly realized it come to think of it. Either way, I'm getting off-topic, eventually it had gotten to the point where we decided to spend one last evening together, and never see each other again after. We went to a small hidden lake in a tiny forest patch, pitched our tent, talked, listened to music, drunk wine and ate cheese. It was the night of the Perseids. Once the sun went down, one shooting start after the other fell from the sky, reflected in the water of the lake. It's one of the moments life becomes so simple. In de verwarring van eeuwige stilte liet ik de speld vallen. Oor-verdovend. Ik liep jaren doorheen mijn eigen leegte. In het waanbeeld van verzonken dromen. Dronk-gelovig. In het einde van de tijden die aan bleven slepen. Onder hemellichamen die elkaars aanraking uitdrukkelijk voelden. En het licht sussend geluid van een uitgedoofd kampvuur. We vielen met de sterren. Jij en ik. - Technical note: the work is fairly graphically intensive and you will need a GPU to properly enjoy the live view, if you're on a device with a high resolution (e.g.: retina screen on mac) and notice the work is lagging, you can add hq=false at the end of your live view.