Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

 A short video shot through the screen of a baby monitor. The video marks a shared milestone: my mother’s 60th birthday and my 30th. She was 30 when she had me. In an conversation filmed in her bed, we talk about how I was an unwanted child. What does it mean to exist when you were never meant to? What does it mean to have the right to exist? What pressure arises when one feels the need to prove their worth to justify their presence, their voice, their existence?

2025
Justine Cappelle

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