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How am I feeling about my exhibition ending? Well I know this feeling, but it came as a surprise because I never thought I’d feel it again. It’s the first heartbreak feeling.

Last time I felt this was one September in my teens, when my first girlfriend broke up with me. I hadn’t seen it coming, but when she sat down next to my bed, I knew what was about to happen. I remember feeling so embarrassed.

She had brought me my favorite blended latte from the cafe down the street. I was struck by how gracious she was, but I felt sick about it. I remember it clearly:

My throat is closed. I can’t drink it now. I know I won’t ever drink it again. I take turns watching it melt and her telling me she doesn’t want to be together anymore. How could I be charged with losing them both at the same time?

I panic, realizing I can’t remember our last kiss. I ask her if we can kiss one more time and she says yes, but she’s sitting so far and neither of us tries to close the distance.

In the decade that follows my heart will break many more times, and I’ll learn all about how to sit with it and my enormous capacity for healing. It turns out what everyone told me is true - the first heartbreak may not be the worst, but it’s the only one where you don’t have evidence that you will come to love again.

That’s how it feels to see my first solo show come down. My work in a museum. I wanted it all my life but I never told anyone because I was too scared it wouldn’t happen. Wanting it hurt then, but now that I’ve had it, the wanting hurts more.

My show ends on Sunday. Feminine Man. My sweetheart. I want to learn from my first heartbreak, to savor these last days together, but every day I come to the museum and skulk around avoiding it. If I even make it in, I keep my shoes on. I can barely make eye contact. 

Feminine Man, I love you so much. I’ll take you down on Monday and keep what I can of you for the rest of my life. I will let you go, but please remember me. And if it’s not too much to ask, please come back to me some other time. Please come back to me so we can be together somewhere else.
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Happy Father’s Day to all who are reparenting ourselves and eachother 💖🦄🦋🤌🏻

My solo exhibition Feminine Man is up April 27 - September 20 at the Finnish Museum of Photography @valokuvamuseo
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