“I endure a lifetime of missing you for the privilege of loving you.”
“I never knew a love so pure until I met you. I never knew a silence so loud until I lost you.”
This is for Maddox…
My greatest love and best friend, whom I had to say goodbye to in September 2025. His presence and his love profoundly reshaped the way I see the world, and myself, opening new ways of understanding what truly matters, and the heavy heart he left behind.
Unconditional love, as I learned it from Maddox, is a love that can never be replaced, neither by a human nor by another animal. Our bond was unique, a love that gave me a sense of home, a connection that existed as a pure symbiosis, lived entirely through energy.
Losing him felt like losing a piece of my heart and an entire home. And grief doesn't come with an expiration date. When you lose a dog, a soul dog, you don't just lose a pet... you lose a best friend, a loyal heart, and a piece of your world that can never truly be replaced. People may expect you to “move on,” but they don't understand that you don't simply get over that kind of love. You learn to live with it. You carry the memories, the warmth, the moments that made life brighter, and often, the tears come, because love that deep leaves an echo. Grief is just another way the heart keeps loving someone who meant everything.
The grief after eleven years of a deep bond has changed my entire internal landscape. Slowly, I am learning to explore how this new landscape will evolve, and where to go with all the love he left behind, while standing in the midst of a very real transition.
From this experience of love, loss, and grief grew a deep desire to give something back. This longing has led me to a meaningful engagement in stray dog rescue, just like Maddox once was in his early days, before I adopted him. While the project is still in its early stages, it is a heartfelt mission, and I hope, in time, to share more of this journey.
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This poster series holds thirteen lessons Maddox taught me (in German, our language), one for each year of his life, and for each of the eleven years we shared together. Each lesson carries a fragment of who he was and a memory he left behind. Together, they form his lasting legacy.
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