Kask & Conservatorium, Graduation

Ella Schöning
It Was Summer When I Found You

Mentoren:
Jelena Juresa
Paul Demets

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It Was Summer When I Found You

A Three-Channel Video Installation on Sapphic Love, Loss, and the Not-So-Quiet Transformation of Healing.

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Inspired by Victorian funeral habits, the performance of ritual, my own heartache, flower language, Victorian gravestone symbolism, and iconic lesbians in history like Anne Lister and Sappho. Also, the drama of that Québécois woman in 1871 who hired a funeral carriage to ride around town while smoking her pipe.

“The very notion of lesbian contains a kind of loss within it. Not because the actual existence of lesbians is in decline, but because the record of our having existed is always in ruin.” Maxwell, A. (2024). Shaping grief: A lesbian poetics of dismembering.

Lesbian history repeats itself in gestures of yearning, distant in time yet familiar in feeling.

Ella Schöning It Was Summer When I Found You

Ella Schöning
It Was Summer When I Found You