This collection is so very special to me… It’s called How To Disappear and it was inspired by my lonely childhood and the fairytale books that kept me company during those times. My parents traveled a lot for work and brought me back magical children’s books about European folk tales and myths, illustrated in vibrant pastels with mythical symbolism. They were almost always in a foreign language I couldn’t understand but it didn’t matter to me. My eyes burned holes through the images. I flipped through their pages until the edges frayed; I was entranced. Stories of girls lost in the forest, the witches that had banished them, the men that betrayed them. Stories about fear and magic lurking under thin veils of purity; they were my lifeline. A fictional place where I could disappear when I was scared and alone, when my parents were gone, when the silence of loneliness was deafening. I could flip through those pages and travel in space and time, to nowhere at all. A collection photographed by Erika Alvarez (featured in the next issue of Fever Dreams Magazine)
