'Constant Star'
"Constant Star is my endeavour into lesbian living-archival documentation, capturing the relationship of Sylvie Martin and her partner, Claire Clively. Following in the footsteps of JEB’s revolutionary lesbian photography, Constant Star presents an intimacy that is unashamedly lesbian, confronting the historical erasure of lesbian relationships in arts and cultural spaces. The title Constant Star is an allusion to the famous relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, both revolutionaries in their craft who’s sexualities were vital to their work"
- Tegan Skye, Francesca Film
“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way… I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this —But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”
- Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
