Baku is an amazing place where a person like Rena Effendi can live and create relatively undisturbed by the forces of a consumerist society. This combined with her easy-going personality make it easy to seek her out. The photographs and the controversy surrounding Rena’s work will pique anyone’s curiosity. When somebody pointed her out to me at a party I did not hesitate to ask for an interview.
“I want a divorce,” she said. It was something she had repeated so many times in her head, just tasting it in her mouth. How would it feel to suddenly be on her own again? And a single mother? How would she manage it? What would his face look like? As they say: a word is not a bird, once you let it out you can never catch it and put back in the cage. Once it is out, it is out. Forever unchangeable and irreversible.