When our modern society emphasises happiness as the most desirable of emotions, we want to make a case for melancholy.

Whatever happened to experiencing the grace of melancholy? Instead of an affliction, perhaps melancholy is a state of mind that brings us into balance and helps us to look deeper inside ourselves.

TEXT: MICHA VAN DINTHER
Photography: Piet-Albert Goethals
model: Laurence Desbisschop