This week we’re catching up with photographer and creator Sophie Wittchen, who recently left her home of six years in Mallorca.
She shares what’s been playing on the road, what it feels like to have nowhere to be, and what her heart is holding along the way.
Soph, tell us a little about you.
I recently sold and left my home of six years in Mallorca, and I’m currently travelling Spain in my 30-year-old caravan, “Coyote,” with my dog Gypsy.
Soph, what’s in your ears?
I go through many moods with music, but at the moment it’s the classics.
Blasting Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac on the days I’m on the road. The last couple of days I was parked by a beach, and in between sunny ocean dips and stormy rain showers I rediscovered Damien Rice as medicine.
What’s living in your head?
I’m actually trying not to be tooo much in my head about planning life or worrying about the future. I spend a lot of time in silence, wandering nature. I try to soak up this journey of not having a “real” home. To bathe in that feeling of having nowhere to be. To see new places every day, or to slow down and stay somewhere I feel connected and comfortable for a couple of days, or even weeks.
What have your hands been busy with on the road?
Life on the road is very different for me, as I’m usually someone who constantly creates. My eyes and my hands are how I express myself.
Before I left, they mostly moved between photography, ceramics, natural dyes and yoga.
Now on the road, my hands are busy making Coyote a home: fixing windows with silicone, painting, decorating.
I take a lot of pictures, practise yoga by the beach, and go for long beach or mountain walks with my dog, depending on where I’m parked. My hands are also busy collecting nature, one of my many hobbies. I haven’t bought a single object on this road trip yet, but I have a questionable number of rocks, seashells and sticks with me. I write down the days that felt special in my little notebook, and I read maaany books.
& last but not least, what’s feeling true in your heart?
My heart is feeling very true. Very raw and honest, and sometimes painful. It flows between a feeling of freedom and the beautiful things my eyes see almost every day on this journey. The excitement of seeing nature I haven’t seen before is one of the things in life that gives me the greatest joy.
To be amazed by nature, by its vastness.
But my heart is also holding a lot of grief, mostly about not being able to share any of these moments with my mother. This journey has shown me again how much my mother was my home.
So yes, what’s feeling true to me right now is my own heart and this journey I’m on.
Thank you, beautiful Soph.
Follow her journey at @sophie_y_sol
