Runaway Love

A Radical Project

I didn't love him.

I wanted to. I even really believed he was “the one”… for the longest time … he was everything to me.

He asked, and I said yes.

I didn’t even think about it.

Didn’t consider what I was giving him.

Myself. Forever?

“You’re too young, too beautiful, too this, too that, to do this now …” I heard so many opinions.

Background noise.

I wore the white dress, and chose red lipstick, to taint my words with blood.

Unconventional some would say, for a bride.

The flowers came raining in, framing the faces of everyone I’d ever known, standing and asking one monumental questions … Will they make it?

I ran away from our love.

Because it wasn’t love.

I LOVED MYSELF MORE.

Bride played by Laila Ezzat in Kojak Studio, Photographed by Ahmed Gaafar, Wardrobe curated by Yasmined Kenawi, Conceptualized by Nour Hassan,Videography by Maryam Nafie, Maquillage by Aya Abdelhamid, Music featured “Half the World Away” by Aurora, filmed on location on the River Nile.