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Chronicle Four: A Letter to Everyone I Love

1st Jan 2022

‘Suicide was not ground zero. Waking up was.’

Project Details
Creative Team
  • Creative team: Christopher Willoughby with Mark Storor
  • Photography: Stephen King
  • Music and Vocals: Rosa Brooks
  • Sound: Richard Gott
  • Voice: Matt Huxley
  • Film: Chris Keenan

Twenty years ago artist and circus performer, Christopher Willoughby attempted to take his own life. Upon waking the resounding question became, how to go on?

During his suicide attempt Chris tried to write to everyone he loved, he didn’t finish these letters. In Chronicle Four, Chris ‘rewrites’ the letter. A Letter To Everyone I Love is a letter of reassurance both to Chris and the recipient of the letter. It is a poem to personal pain, to resilience, to reconciliation. It reflects the fierce will to stay in the world and ultimately it is a celebration of love given and of love received.

It is an intimate, dreamlike, contemplation on being here and not here. And despite still living every day with impossible questions which may have no answers, as Chris reflects ‘leaving is not an option’.

Part of The Suicide Chronicles, a collaborative artistic project led by Mark Storor working with communities impacted by suicide, aiming to collectively find a language to articulate and explore the complex, layered experience of suicide.

For more information about The Suicide Chronicles please contact emily@heartofglass.org.uk.

Mark Storor