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A bold man stood in a white room is covered in white powder. He holds a handful of blue thread that is hanging between the gaps in his fingers in one hand, and in the other is the spool of thread.

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’.

A man is outside in the dark in a muddy field, there is a barbed wire fence and bushes and branches behind him. He is covered in white powder and wearing yellow boxers, and on his head he is a bear shaped mask made of paper, covering his head and shoulders.
A man is lying down on his side in an all white room. He is covered in white powder, and the room is cloudy with the white poweder so you can only just see him.
A bold man stood in a white room is covered in white powder. He holds a handful of blue thread that is hanging between the gaps in his fingers in one hand, and in the other is the spool of thread.

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

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