Portrait of a Girl Through a Pandemic

Video still, close-up view of a woman's face. She is wearing a black woolen hat and her eyes are cast downwards.

Emily O’Flynn, Portrait of a Girl Through a Pandemic, 2021. © Emily O’Flynn.Credit

Emily O’Flynn

Portrait of a Girl Through a Pandemic, 2021

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‘SCUFFED. The whole thing is scuffed. There is no finesse to what I have presented. I never meant for anyone to see these images. A selection of selfies. Images taken fresh out of my first emergency mental health hospitalisation to when my hair started falling out. The train journey to the hospice to see a loved one for the last time and the morning she passed. Before and after counselling. My visit to St. Gobnait’s Well. A walk with a goat.’

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